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Biggest US Prison strikes yet again ignored by media

52 points by kaushikfrnd ↗ HN
Yes of course who cares about the strikes in prison. They are a bunch of criminals. But what about basic human rights. Why so much injustice. Better hang us, If we don't deserve to live please kill us rather not kill us by serving bad food. Or torturing us. This what an inmate told to us.

[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/28/pris-a28.html Article]

2018 prison strike sill one of the biggest strikes in prison so far in the States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_U.S._prison_strike

But did we learn anything?

My brother is in Denver correctional facility. in the same facility, they have been doing regular hunger strike for about a month. But no seems to care. Do we care?

Can we do something about it!

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sandino
Truly, and I say that quite seriously, this is one of the great civil rights issues of our time.

Can we do something about it?

Boycott companies (and there are many) that apparently profit from all of this misery and exploitation? In addition to recruiting celebrities to start speaking up about the issue and all that obvious stuff (which sounds superficial, but seems to work in other contexts).

JumpCrisscross
> Can we do something about it?

Yes. We are having success with ending cash bail in New York. The Bail Project does good work on this nationally. Outlawing RATs (deeply-flawed algorithmic risk assessment tests used by judges to decide bail and parole terms) is probably the next front. All this happens alongside decriminalisation of recreational drugs and civil offenses overly-eagerly categorised as crimes.

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kaushikfrnd
Prison companies are the biggest scammers of all time. I guess in the US after OIL / Banks / Pharma companies Prison industry would be one of the biggest scams. Not only a lot of taxpayers money goes into their pocket. Inmate and their families also pay them regularly.

It includes: 1> Food providers (1st biggest scam) 2> Telephone providers (2nd Biggest of all) 3> Other services healthcare / groceries etc.

dang
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