US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over 'modern slavery' [View all]

Source: Guardian


Organisers say prisoners across the country are expected to refuse to work, hold sit-ins and even stage hunger strikes

Ed Pilkington in New York
@edpilkington
Tue 21 Aug 2018 01.00 EDT

The first part of the prisons likely to be hit will be the kitchens, where stoves will remain unlit, ready-meals unheated and thousands of breakfasts uncooked.

From there the impact will fan out. The laundry will be left unwashed, prison corridors un-mopped, and the lawns on the external grounds ring-fenced with barbed wire will go uncut.

On Tuesday, America’s vast army of incarcerated men and women – at 2.3m of them they form by far the largest imprisoned population in the world – will brace itself for what has the potential to be the largest prison strike in US history.

Nineteen days of peaceful protest are planned across the nation, organised largely by prisoners themselves.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor-protest-america-jailhouse-lawyers-speak