AUSTIN, Texas --- As hunger strikes and sporadic work stoppages continue at prisons across the country, the historic prison movement and the brutal retaliation inmates have faced because of it remain largely unreported in the mainstream media. The media blackout continues even though tens of thousands of inmates are believed to have taken part
Mainstream Media Ignores Mass Hunger & Work Strikes By Prisoners Nationwide
‘The repression is very real,’ one union advocate for the incarcerated said. The advocate also reported that a guard in a Wisconsin prison has encouraged other inmates to beat and rape an elderly hunger striker.