http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/16/ca-prisoners-reject-state-offer-as-inmate-hunger-strike-enters-3rd-week/

For women in California prisons: Death, abuse, indignity and one roll of toilet paper a month.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/california-women-prisons_n_871125.html?ir=Politics

“if our nation were to return to the rates of incarceration we had in the 1970s, we would have to release four out of five people behind bars.”

http://www.thenation.com/article/160978/michelle-alexander-californias-cruel-and-unusual-prisons

Thirty years of Failure; California's Failed Penal System

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/california-prison-legislation_n_868326.html