South Carolina Prisoners Reflect on Causes of Violence In Prisons and Solutions

The following was submitted by Jared Ware whose information and contact follow the interview. The deadliest incident of violence in a United States prison in a quarter century took place at the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina on April 15, 2018. According to multiple reports, including SCDC Director Bryan Stirling’s own, prison guards and…

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Florida Warden Retaliates For Article Publicizing Prison Abuses, Slave Labor and Prisoner Protest (2018)

By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson During early January 2018 my article “Florida Prisoners Are Laying It Down” was published online, which discussed the prevalence of enforced slave labor in the Florida Department of Corruption (FDOC), the brutally inhumane conditions under which its prisoners live, and a planned nonviolent protest they were staging in efforts to bring…

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URGENT CALL ALERT for Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

URGENT CALL ALERT Prisoner Name: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson #158039 DETAILS Kevin “Rashid” Johnson (#158039) wrote an article about the Florida prison strike, which was published online on January 9, 2018. The following day warden Barry Reddish retaliated against Kevin’s use of his First Amendment rights, ordering that he be given a disciplinary infraction for “inciting a riot”. Further, on…

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