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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.

Mass Black Incarceration

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