This introduction has served as a diagnosis of the problem from an historical perspective as well as analytical. It is important that our readers comprehend that "SHU Strategies Toward Survival" are solutions and Ways and Means to counter this attack.

"SHU Survival Strategies"

l. Maintain as much communication with as many people in society as possible.

2. Seek to read as many different publications as possible on as many different subjects as possible in order to have a consistent flow of information.

3. Create an environment of cooperation between yourself and the other prisoners around you in order to develop community and "Unity of Purpose."

4. Develop an exercise and study program which builds over time; that is, levels of progression.

5. Communicate as little as possible with staff.

6. Attempt to politicize other prisoners and encourage collective problem solving.

7. Remember that during time in prison it is not where you are but who you are, because time is time.

8. Seek to study your captors so as to avail yourself of any and all opportunities to disarm them.

I cannot hope these 8 strategies to be successful for all prisoners in all situations, but only the test to survive the SHU will determine who is able to transcend the torture.

Welter Daily
California

Love

At the Attica Remembrance event, September 6, 1997, Geronimo Ji Jaga told us: "I survived because of the spirit there ... I survived because of the love there

Women's Building
San Francisco

Clear Sight

Hopefully the day will come that my freedom is finally returned. There's so many things I think I'll be able to give back to the community from which I came. Pelican Bay, for all the underhanded and cruel things that's being done there, one good thing is I now understand and see so many things, mainly life, very clearly.

Johnny Barnes
California