The Board of Missions and Social Justice will present a movie entitled "The Strike." It is a documentary about what became a statewide hunger strike against the practice of imposing solitary confinement in California prisons. Solitary confinement of over two weeks is considered torture by international standards, yet California and other states impose solitary for months, years, even decades. The practice, renamed "restricted housing" by the CDCR (which changed its name recently to "California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation" from "California Department of Corrections") is currently undergoing reform efforts. These reforms will take significant steps to limit the use of restricted housing to only those situations where an individual has engaged in violence, which present a direct threat to safety and security of staff and population at CDCR’s institutions. Additionally, these reforms will increase access to rehabilitative programming opportunities within these settings. But solitary confinement, no matter what it is called, continues in California and elsewhere. It is important to understand the practice. 

 Join us for this hour and a quarter documentary in the Fireside Room.