The reason behind the strike is the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. Which started on the iconic day of September 9th. This movement was started by the End Prison Slavery in Texas movement. They saw how the prisoners were sick and tired of being exploited, degraded, and even dehumanized change had to be done.
While in the thirteenth Amendment if the constitution slavery was started to be abolished. The amendment had an exception for the citizens that have been incarcerated because of a crime. This means prisoners can be told to work with little or no pay. Inmates may work to make between twelve and forty cents per hour. This doesn’t include Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia who do not pay prisoners. If inmates are lucky they can …show more content…
Only a selective seven percent enter into the program and get paid twenty-three to a dollar fifteen per hour. In which every prison is required for prisoners to work. Again they can instill this with little or no pay. If a prisoner is medically aloud to work, they must work. Most prisons will force work on prisoners consisting of mopping floors, cutting grass, cooking washing clothes. Not working may put them in violation, like in Texas if inmates don’t obey the request they may be subjected to 24 hour cell confinement or lose of privileges. Idle hands are the devils work, the Federal Bureau of prisons strongly believe that quote to be true. Men who have nothing to do get irritable and bored which lead them to do trouble activities. Activists on the outside created groups of organization such as Free Alabama movement. They helped with strike to pass a freedom bill that would abolish free labor from prison. On September 9th information was leaked to other prisons to protest against conditions that prisoners were acclimated to. Inmates protested for the improvement of their wages and working conditions. Will they allow bill to pass for the abolishment …show more content…
That is one great reason why one would strike against fair wages. Some states allow “goodtime” the more one work and stay out of trouble the prison flat time decreases. This would move a prisoners’ parole hearing up, but if you have a felony you are excluded. Though some may not get pay or even benefits they end up slaving. I do believe if one cannot benefit from work it then I consider that slavery. Some men reported to their family members that working conditions are horrible and unjust. Working long hours where they go without lunch or not having enough breaks for water. The prisoners are not just striking because of pay but also of abuse, lack of medical care with unsafe conditions. To add to the unsafe conditions, prisoners would be dehumanized and beaten. This is all under the supervision of prison guards that participate in these foul acts. If any prisoner thinks of stepping out of line to tell a higher authority they will be written up. To an extent I don’t see any harm in what the prisoners are doing wrong in anyway. According to South Caroline Department of corrections reported that inmates released a list of demands which seemed would be in the betterment of the facility. They requested fair wages, bringing back GED classes, and meaningful rehabilitation programs. South Caroline saw this as a threat which lead to a lock down in
While in the thirteenth Amendment if the constitution slavery was started to be abolished. The amendment had an exception for the citizens that have been incarcerated because of a crime. This means prisoners can be told to work with little or no pay. Inmates may work to make between twelve and forty cents per hour. This doesn’t include Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia who do not pay prisoners. If inmates are lucky they can …show more content…
Only a selective seven percent enter into the program and get paid twenty-three to a dollar fifteen per hour. In which every prison is required for prisoners to work. Again they can instill this with little or no pay. If a prisoner is medically aloud to work, they must work. Most prisons will force work on prisoners consisting of mopping floors, cutting grass, cooking washing clothes. Not working may put them in violation, like in Texas if inmates don’t obey the request they may be subjected to 24 hour cell confinement or lose of privileges. Idle hands are the devils work, the Federal Bureau of prisons strongly believe that quote to be true. Men who have nothing to do get irritable and bored which lead them to do trouble activities. Activists on the outside created groups of organization such as Free Alabama movement. They helped with strike to pass a freedom bill that would abolish free labor from prison. On September 9th information was leaked to other prisons to protest against conditions that prisoners were acclimated to. Inmates protested for the improvement of their wages and working conditions. Will they allow bill to pass for the abolishment …show more content…
That is one great reason why one would strike against fair wages. Some states allow “goodtime” the more one work and stay out of trouble the prison flat time decreases. This would move a prisoners’ parole hearing up, but if you have a felony you are excluded. Though some may not get pay or even benefits they end up slaving. I do believe if one cannot benefit from work it then I consider that slavery. Some men reported to their family members that working conditions are horrible and unjust. Working long hours where they go without lunch or not having enough breaks for water. The prisoners are not just striking because of pay but also of abuse, lack of medical care with unsafe conditions. To add to the unsafe conditions, prisoners would be dehumanized and beaten. This is all under the supervision of prison guards that participate in these foul acts. If any prisoner thinks of stepping out of line to tell a higher authority they will be written up. To an extent I don’t see any harm in what the prisoners are doing wrong in anyway. According to South Caroline Department of corrections reported that inmates released a list of demands which seemed would be in the betterment of the facility. They requested fair wages, bringing back GED classes, and meaningful rehabilitation programs. South Caroline saw this as a threat which lead to a lock down in