*Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity

*Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity is a coalition based in the Bay Area with international supporters of prisoner rights advocates, lawyers, family& community members and anti-prison activist organizations. The coalition and hunger strike was initiated by prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison. Coalition partners include: Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, All of Us or None, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, California Prison Focus, Prison Activist Resource Center, Critical Resistance, Kersplebedeb, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, American Friends Service Committee, and a number of individuals throughout the United States and Canada. Check out a growing list of over 200 organizations internationally that have signed on in support of the hunger strike. To get in contact with the coalition, email: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity@gmail.comhttp://myemail.constantcontact.com/Tomorrow--Support-the-CA-Hunger-Strike-.html?soid=1102350576074&aid=iaAadH_6Kaw

NEW JAIL AND PRISON CREDIT LAWS TAKE EFFECT

February 2, 2010 -- Effective January 25, 2010, several new laws took effect which will grant additional sentence credits to jail inmates and state prisoners.

Prisoner Release 101:

the truth about inmate release under new law

Monday, February 22, 2010

7pm – 9:30pm

Joyce Beers Center in San Diego

1230 Cleveland Ave., Suite M-100

San Diego, California 92103

Free to Public

· California’s inmate population will be reduced by 6,500 this year to comply with law.

· California is under federal court order to cut the number of inmates by 40,000.

· In January San Diego County jails gave early release to about 260 inmates.

These are low-level offenders such as drug users, who need services for successful reentry.

Panel of Speakers Includes:

Craig Gilmore, California Prison Moratorium Project & Californians United for a Responsible Budget

Caroline Stewart, L.C.S.W., A New PATH

Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, Drug Policy Alliance

Rev. Dennis Malone, All of Us or None & A New PATH

Judy Patterson, Second Chance STRIVE

Dennis Moore, Bethel A.M.E. Prison Ministry

And more…

Moderator: John de Miranda, Ed.M. Stepping Stone & Faces and Voices of Recovery

Please RSVP to: Gretchen Burns Bergman, Executive Director & Co-Founder A New PATH

619-670-1184 or anewpath@cox.net. Website: www.anewpathsite.org.