- This week, US prisoner advocacy group Jailhouse Lawyers Speak announced that prisoners nationwide will refuse to work in protest of horrid living conditions.
- Demands include better conditions, end to life imprisonment, and more rehab services.
- The US Constitution (13th Amendment) forbids slave labor except as punishment during imprisonment.
- More than 800K prisoners work everyday and are literally paid cents every hour.
- Strikers risk punishment including solitary confinement.
- The strike was triggered by a South Carolina prison riot (April 2018) that resulted in 7 inmates being killed.
