Reply #2: K&R was just about to post, but you beat me to it! [View All]

[Puregonzo1188]

I got too hung up on that German castration thread.


Here's more info:

The prisoner strike in Georgia is unique, sources among inmates and their families say, because it includes not just Black prisoners, but Latinos and whites, too, a departure from the usual sharp racial divisions that exist behind prison walls.

Inmate families and other sources claim that when thousands of prisoners remained in their cells Thursday, authorities responded with violence and intimidation. Tactical officers rampaged through Telfair State Prison destroying inmate personal effects and severely beating at least six prisoners. Inmates in Macon State Prison say authorities cut the prisoners' hot water, and at Telfair, the administration shut off heat Thursday when daytime temperatures were in the 30s. Prisoners responded by screening their cells with blankets, keeping prison authorities from performing an accurate count, a crucial aspect of prison operations.<...>
The nine specific demands made by Georgia's striking prisoners in two press releases pointedly reflect many of the systemic failures of the U.S. regime of mass incarceration and the utter disconnection of U.S. prisons from any notions of protecting or serving the public interest. Prisoners are demanding, in their own words, decent living conditions, adequate medical care and nutrition, educational and self-improvement opportunities, just parole decisions, an end to cruel and unusual punishments, and better access to their families.

http://socialistworker.org/2010/12/13/prisoners-strike-in-georgia