When inmates choose to participate in the strike, particularly the hunger strike component its essential that we at the very least we choose alternatives to purchasing from companies who participate in the prison industrial complex by exploiting prisoners’ labor by paying them pennies on the dollar for the work that they do. When prisoners choose […]
[left: Gang sentenced to 682 years behind bars in Johannesburg, CA; right top: Hidden Valley Kings gang members sentenced between 25-30 years in Charlotte, SC; right bottom: gang’s leaders received between 10 and 24 years in prison in Charlotte, SC] Gang enhancement laws differ from state to state, however they require that a person who’s […]
[featured image of a solidarity rally in Des Moines, Iowa outside of the Iowa Prison Industries office] As supporters of the national prison strike, we must remember that the call to end prison slavery isn’t the only of prisoners demands. In 2016 this was a major focus nationwide and this has continued to be a […]
On the first day of the prison strike we’ve already seen hundreds demonstrating on both sides of the wall. Particularly where I reside in the Pacific Northwest, there have been reports of over 200 individuals incarcerated in Tacoma’s Detention Center participating in the Nationwide prison strike through work stoppages. In support of those on the […]
(Seattle, USA) – August 18, 2018 – Prisoners within various institutions nationwide will be on coordinated work stoppages, sit-in strikes, commissary boycotts, and hunger strikes from August 21 – September 9, 2018, demanding “humane living conditions, access to rehabilitation, sentencing reform, and the end of modern day slavery.” Jailhouse Lawyers Speak (JLS) is a network […]
We’re less than a week away from the beginning of the strike and the more interviews I do with the media the more that I realize that the audience that I’m speaking to is growing wider and wider. This is why it’s important for me to me to address those that fit under one of […]
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If we strike for no other reason, then we strike in response to prisoner retaliation especially. Because we will not be silent until all of our prisoners feel safe and, dare I say, comfortable. Maybe not luxuriously comfortable but I also do not live in luxuriously comfortable conditions. However, the men and women who are […]
Recently outrage over the treatment of immigrant children in detention centers are heading the conversation about the inhumane practices that we enforce in facilities across the country. It is clear there is an undeniable connection between detention facilities, prisons (state and federal), as well as county and city jails. All of these institutions were created to […]
The largest prison strike in history is happening right now, the mainstream media refuses to circulate this information, but I can not be silent… I stand in solidarity with inmates detained in prison, as slaves under the 13 amendment. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have […]