Today prisoners in at least 24 states are set to
participate in a nationally coordinated strike that comes on the 45th
anniversary of the prison uprising at Attica.
Much like the prisoners who took over New York’s
infamous correctional facility in 1971, today’s prisoners are
protesting long-term isolation, inadequate healthcare, overcrowding,
violent attacks and slave labor.
Democracy Now features an excerpt from the interview in
May with one of the organizers, Kinetik Justice, by phone from
solitary confinement in Holman Correctional Facility. He is
co-founder of the Free Alabama Movement. He was serving his 28th
month in solitary for organizing a similar protest in 2014.
Interview:
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