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Month-Long Hunger Strike at Corcoran Prison Ends as COVID Outbreak Continues

ByperilousDecember 5, 2020

Three prisoners at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (CSATF) in Corcoran, California ended their hunger strike this week after more than a month of refusing food in protest of conditions.

ByperilousDecember 4, 2020

By Ray Noll and Elizabeth Topp As cases of COVID-19 continue to surge inside Michigan prisons, those confined inside the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center (RGC) in Jackson County are fighting back and taking collective action against deplorable conditions. While

ByperilousDecember 1, 2020

Prisoners at the Saskatoon Provisional Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada organized a hunger strike last weekend to protest the rapidly-spreading COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.

ByperilousNovember 26, 2020

Hundreds of prisoners in the Cook Unit of the Eyman prison in Florence, Arizona reportedly surrounded prison staff and destroyed prison infrastructure during an uprising Wednesday afternoon

ByperilousNovember 14, 2020

Loren Reed, dubbed the “Arizona Emo Anarchist” by a local right-wing news site, was released on his own recognizance this week pending trial after more than four and a half months of pre-trial detention.

ByperilousNovember 13, 2020

At the end of October, in the midst of a rapidly spreading COVID-19 epidemic at the facility, a small group of prisoners in D yard have announced a work stoppage and hunger strike in protest of what they consider to be institution’s “failure to protect” them from the spread

ByperilousOctober 7, 2020

Prisoners at the Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Pasquotank County, North Carolina have declared a fourteen day hunger strike beginning October 1, releasing a list of grievances and declaring their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement outside the prison walls.

ByperilousOctober 1, 2020

Around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 13, a guard at Chippewa Correctional Facility (URF) used a taser on a prisoner--according to Michigan Department of Correction (MDOC) spokesperson Chris Gautz, to break up a fight. Detroit Free Press reported that the tased prisoner

ByperilousSeptember 25, 2020

This week, we cover the prison evacuations in Oregon as wildfires tear through the state and down the coast. On Tuesday, September 8, the ODOC announced on Facebook that it had evacuated 1,450 prisoners from Mill Creek, Santiam and Oregon State correctional institutions

ByperilousSeptember 3, 2020

Summary Welcome back to the Perilous Podcast, a news and oral history project featuring original interviews with prisoners and detainees who have participated in or witnessed protests, uprisings and other forms of unrest behind bars. We also gather analysis and insight from

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Month-Long Hunger Strike at Corcoran Prison Ends as COVID Outbreak Continues

“Perfect Recipe for a Riot”: COVID-19 Conditions and Resistance Inside Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center in Jackson, Michigan

Hunger Strike Amidst COVID Outbreak at Saskatoon Correctional

Uprising Involves Hundreds of Prisoners at Arizona’s Largest Prison

Indigenous Activist Faces 10 Years for Facebook Comments

Hunger Strike Enters Third Week at California’s Largest Prison

Prisoners in North Carolina Express Solidarity with Black Lives Matter, Declare Hunger Strike

“All the Way in the Fight”: Black Lives Matter Protest in Michigan Prison

Perilous Podcast 9: Rebellion and Bloodshed Amidst Oregon Prison Evacuations

Podcast 7: Black August Hunger Strike from ICE Detention