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Nationwide Prison Strike Set for August 21 – September 9
Kyle Fraser, Black Agenda Radio producer
08 May 2018
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The death of 7 inmates in fighting at South Carolina’s Lee correctional facility “is an indictment on the nation as a whole,” said Brother Dee, of Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, in an interview with Black Agenda Radio producer Kyle Fraser. Inmates with the prison slavery abolition movement have put forward a list of ten demands, including the outlawing of work without pay and a rollback of repressive prison laws and practices that “have been designed to dehumanize us as well as make us feel hopeless,” said Akin Yele, of Unheard Voices OTCJ.

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