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 Prisoners Are Laying It Down

by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson During early 2018 prisoners across Florida are gonna “laydown” in nonviolent protest of the intolerable conditions in Florida’s prisons. The objectionable conditions being protested include unpaid slave labor, compounded by outright price-gouging in the system’s commissary and package services, and the gain-time scam that replaced parole, which, coupled with extreme sentencing,…

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