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Simmering Rebellion in South Carolina Prisons
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
16 Jul 2018

Despite a corporate media blackout on conditions behind prison walls, inmates find ways to protest the year-long lockdown that was punctuated, in April, by a rebellion that left seven dead, said Efia Nwangaza, director of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, in Greenville. Nwangaza said inmates are provided inadequate and non-nutritious food and cellblock windows are covered by metal plates so that “prisoners can’t tell if it’s day or night” – conditions that resemble mass solitary confinement.

Mass Black Incarceration

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