Potosi Correctional Facility, Mineral Point, Missouri
October 13, 2013
A group of 15 prisoners stage a week long hunger strike “to protest too much abuse, neglect, sanitation issues etc.” At the launch, prisoners express their solidarity with the massive California hunger strike earlier in the year.
Kansas City MO Anarchist Black Cross and the San Francisco Bay View publishes a call to action from the hunger strikers requesting phone calls to the warden.
Citation:
“Potosi MO hunger strike”, KCMO ABC, December 8, 2013
Background:
“Missouri prisoners in solitary confinement follow California’s lead, begin hunger strike”, SF Bayview, Nov 17, 2013
“Crisis in Missouri prisons ‘downplayed’“, News Tribune, December 30th, 2018.