US inmates launch nationwide strike
The Lee Correctional Institution, in Bishopville, South Carolina, was the site of a deadly riot in April that led to calls for a nationwide prisoners' strike to protest conditions at US pentitentiaries (AFP Photo/Logan Cyrus)/ Washington (AFP) - US prisoners on Tuesday declared a nationwide strike demanding changes to correctional institutions including living conditions, pathways to parole and voting rights restoration. The US incarceration rate is the world's highest: about 2.2 million people were behind bars at the end of 2016, a figure ...
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