Tags Texas locks down prison on Labor Day to avert work stoppage
Tag: Texas locks down prison on Labor Day to avert work stoppage
Texas locks down prison on Labor Day to avert work stoppage
On Labor Day here at the William P. Clements Unit, a prison in remote Amarillo, Texas, the prisoners awoke to a late breakfast: a single PBJ sandwich, a small bowl of dry cereal and no beverage. This grossly inadequate meal, which is our common fare during institution-wide lockdowns, signaled that a weeks- or months-long lockdown was in effect. Hunger pangs set in almost immediately.