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Tags Aug. 19 Washington D.C. march in support of prisoners’ rights and against slave labor in U.S. prisons

Tag: Aug. 19 Washington D.C. march in support of prisoners’ rights and against slave labor in U.S. prisons

Florida prisoners are laying it down

During early 2018 prisoners across Florida are gonna “laydown” in nonviolent protest of the intolerable conditions in Florida’s prisons. The objectionable conditions being protested include unpaid slave labor, compounded by outright price-gouging in the system’s commissary and package services, and the gain-time scam that replaced parole, which, coupled with extreme sentencing, has created overcrowding and inhumane conditions.