{"id":1752,"date":"2016-10-24T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T14:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2016-11-01T19:15:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:15:12","slug":"nationwide-prison-strike-enters-second-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2016\/10\/24\/nationwide-prison-strike-enters-second-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Prison Strike Enters Second Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inmates in prisons across the country have been striking since September 9<sup>th<\/sup>, the 45<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Attica prison riots.\u00a0 Prisoners are utilizing both labor strikes and hunger strikes to protest mass incarceration and prison labor conditions.\u00a0 One organization heavily involved in the strike, the Free Alabama Movement, issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/freealabamamovement.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/09\/press-statement-sept-9-nationwide-protest-workstrike-boycott-and-demonstrations\/\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">press release<\/span><\/a> highlighting the use of underpaid or unpaid prison labor by governments and corporations.\u00a0\u00a0As the strike has continued, inmates\u00a0in multiple states\u00a0have reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/at-least-24000-inmates-have-staged-coordinated-protests-in-the-past-month-why-have-you-not-heard-of-their-actions\/\">retaliation and harsh treatment <\/a>in response to their actions, including solitary confinement of organizers and the use of tear gas and riot gear.<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts, inmates at Souza-Baranowski correctional center\u00a0staged a peaceful protest on September 8th\u00a0in response to new proposed regulations regarding visitation and communication.\u00a0 One such\u00a0regulation would limit the number of visitors on each inmate&#8217;s pre-approved visitor list to five at a time.\u00a0 Advocates argue that these regulations interfere with prisoners&#8217; ability to stay connected to their family and community support systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inmates in prisons across the country have been striking since September 9th, the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison riots.\u00a0 Prisoners are utilizing both labor strikes and hunger strikes to protest mass incarceration and prison labor conditions.\u00a0 One organization heavily involved in the strike, the Free Alabama Movement, issued a press release highlighting the use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,80,31],"tags":[114,38,61],"class_list":["post-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prison-conditions","category-prison-labor","category-prison-reform","tag-harvard-plap","tag-harvard-prison-legal-assistance-project","tag-prison-reform-2","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}