{"id":99,"date":"2016-09-21T02:39:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T02:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/21\/week-two-for-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:23:21","slug":"week-two-for-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/09\/21\/week-two-for-the-largest-prison-strike-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Week two for the largest prison strike in US history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As many as 20,000 US prisoners are going into their second week on strike against forced labor and inhumane prison conditions<\/a>, though the US prison system has locked down the centers of the strike, denied all conduits for information, and put the leadership into solitary confinement.<\/p>\n

The strike commemorates the anniversary of the Attica Prison Uprising, and though it\u2019s hard to know exactly what\u2019s going on inside \u2013 thanks to the control exerted by America\u2019s jailers \u2013 the news that\u2019s trickled out is both inspiring and worrying.<\/p>\n

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