At least nine prison guards from the Alabama Department of Corrections didn't show up for work as a show of solidarity joining the inmates in their protest against deplorable prison conditions.
At least five prisons between California, Wisconsin and Ohio are on hunger strike to draw attention to exploitive labor conditions, or what protestors call 'prison slavery.' The Alabama guards actions have appeared after the third week of the largest prison strike in US history. The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee says at one point, about 20,000 prisoners were on strike.
A press release from the Free Alabama Movement titled "URGENT EMERGENCY ALERT: As Incarcerated Men Strike for Rights, Guards Follow: Officers Stage Historic Work Strike at Holman Prison" states:
"The officers at Holman, who have been defying ADOC policy and speaking publicly to the media, had communicated their plans to F.A.M. members, and expressed their support for non-violent and peaceful demonstrations against the human rights conditions existent at Holman."
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges recently discussed mass incarceration with prison reform advocates Walter Fortson and Boris Franklin on his show On Contact. From the school-to-prison pipeline, to solitary confinement, to preventing recidivism, his guests reflected on their own experiences to address how to fix one of the major civil rights issues of today.
At least five prisons between California, Wisconsin and Ohio are on hunger strike to draw attention to exploitive labor conditions, or what protestors call 'prison slavery.' The Alabama guards actions have appeared after the third week of the largest prison strike in US history. The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee says at one point, about 20,000 prisoners were on strike.
A press release from the Free Alabama Movement titled "URGENT EMERGENCY ALERT: As Incarcerated Men Strike for Rights, Guards Follow: Officers Stage Historic Work Strike at Holman Prison" states:
"The officers at Holman, who have been defying ADOC policy and speaking publicly to the media, had communicated their plans to F.A.M. members, and expressed their support for non-violent and peaceful demonstrations against the human rights conditions existent at Holman."
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges recently discussed mass incarceration with prison reform advocates Walter Fortson and Boris Franklin on his show On Contact. From the school-to-prison pipeline, to solitary confinement, to preventing recidivism, his guests reflected on their own experiences to address how to fix one of the major civil rights issues of today.
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