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![Interview with Luis Talamantez](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: SS 132AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Luis Talamantez on the Pelican Bay Project, "Torture in California."
!["Torture in California"](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/20/1993Call Number: SS 017AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
An info project presentation on the "Torture in California," about the mistreatment of prisoners.
![Pelican Bay Prison](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
About the inhuman conditions of Pelican Bay control unit prison. Prisoners describe how the prison prevents them from receiving pictures from home. The prison also prohibits having books, because they can be used as weapons. Also mentioned was the lack of health services and the difficulty of obtaining medications.
![Interview with Hugo Pinell at Pelican Bay](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Pinell discusses his reasons to refuse cooperation with the federal government; theories of personal vs. general freedom, suffering and justice; the connection of bad prison conditions with an inherently flawed system; and philosophies he has learned from other inmates within the system. "Us poor, the best way we survive is we create our own world. But it's not. The whole world is our world. I'm just as special as everyone else in the world."
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