California Maybe Replacing Its ‘Prison-Industrial Complex’ With Something Far Worse
The main players in California’s “treatment-industrial complex” are the very same ones involved in the for-profit prison industry.
Media Silent As U.S. Prisoners Continue To Hunger Strike Abysmal Conditions
Prisoners across the U.S. have been holding hunger and labor strikes since last year, with tens of thousands of inmates protesting abuse and poor conditions. But news reports on the strikes have been few and far between, leaving prisoners’ requests for humane treatment in the dark.
On Oct. 30, 2016, Robert Earl Council was found sprawled unconscious on the floor of his cell in Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility after being on hunger strike for 10 days. Medical staff at the prison force-fed him intravenously, as his blood sugar
