2016 National Prison Strike Archives

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Refused meals at Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, Colorado

ByperilousAugust 19, 2017

August 19, 2017: Nearly 100 prisoners at a women's facility refuse meals for one day in solidarity with Millions for Prisoners and those experiencing repression following the national prison strike of September, 2016. Prisoners share commissary food items and make sure each

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South Carolina Rebellion

ByperilousSeptember 26, 2016

September 26-30, 2016: Amid frequent shakedowns, transfers and other retaliation for participating in the nation-wide strike, a prisoner named Michael Lorenzo Jones is killed in a fight between prisoners at McCormick CI. The Department of Corrections responds with a

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2016 National Prison Strike: Uprising at Kinross Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousSeptember 10, 2016

September 10, 2016: Prisoners at Kinross Correctional Facility organize a work stoppage and sit-down protest that escalates into a mass protest in the prison yard demonstrating the unity of the prisoners. After being promised that their demands will be heard, the prisoners

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2016 National Prison Strike: Deer Ridge Correctional Institution, Oregon

ByperilousSeptember 9, 2016

September 9, 2016: Several strike organizers inside Deer Ridge CI are preemptively transferred to avoid a kitchen work stoppage. Outside supporters organize a related phone zap and hold a rowdy demo in downtown Portland.

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2016 National Prison Strike: Ohio

ByperilousSeptember 9, 2016

September 9, 2016: Hunger strikes announced at the Ohio State Penitentiary (supermax) and the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Free Ohio Movement releases extensive list of demands. Prisoner organizer Siddique Abdullah Hasan is framed and repeatedly

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2016 National Prison Strike: Texas

ByperilousSeptember 9, 2016

September 9, 2016: Prisoners across seven facilities in Texas go on strike to protest their conditions of confinement, including unpaid prison labor, toxic water, mold, and excessive heat. With multiple prisons on lockdown and restrictions on both incoming and outgoing

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2016 National Prison Strike: Fluvanna Correctional Facility, Virginia

ByperilousSeptember 9, 2016

September 9, 2016: Women prisoners participate in the national work stoppage.

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2016 National Prison Strike: South Carolina

ByperilousSeptember 9, 2016

September 9-23, 2016: Prisoners issue a list of demands and those affiliated with Jailhouse Lawyers Speak report that incarcerated individuals at multiple facilities across South Carolina refuse to go to work and are locked down. They hold down work stoppages and disruptions

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2016 National Prison Strike: Holman Correctional Facility, Alabama

ByperilousSeptember 9, 2016

September 9, 2016: Prisoners refuse to go to work, specifically stopping operations in the kitchen and the facility's tag plant. Reports from prisoners state that officers are performing prison labor duties, while prisoners sleep in and read during a lock-down.

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2016 National Prison Strike: Perry Correctional Institution, South Carolina

ByperilousSeptember 9, 2016

September 9, 2016: Approximately 350 of the prison's 1500 prisoners refuse to work. Prison workers strike from the furniture factory, kitchen, landscaping, and janitorial duty.

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Refused meals at Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, Colorado

South Carolina Rebellion

2016 National Prison Strike: Uprising at Kinross Correctional Facility, Michigan

2016 National Prison Strike: Deer Ridge Correctional Institution, Oregon

2016 National Prison Strike: Ohio

2016 National Prison Strike: Texas

2016 National Prison Strike: Fluvanna Correctional Facility, Virginia

2016 National Prison Strike: South Carolina

2016 National Prison Strike: Holman Correctional Facility, Alabama

2016 National Prison Strike: Perry Correctional Institution, South Carolina

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