Todd Ashker, California hunger strike organizer, says the prisoners will resume their hunger strike if they don't get humane treatment.

He managed to unite prisoners of different races, overcoming the foolish racism that divides them and makes them easy to manipulate.

The guards say that solitary confinement is a punishment for belonging to a gang, but they label someone a gang member on the flimsiest pretexts, and the only way to get out of solitary is to accuse others (truly or not).