Georgia Prison Strike, One Year Later: Activists Outside the Walls Have Failed Those Inside the Walls

Posted on December 24, 2011

by Chad Landrum*

PARC  would like to thank the BAYVIEW  for its continuing coverage  of prison stories. Here are a couple of good examples.....

Prison Stories

On December 17, approximately 75-100 community members protesting the desecration of Rattlesnake Island, the spiritual center of the Elem Pomo community, marched to the Piedmont mansion of John Nady, the owner of Nady Systems, who has been one of those pushing for the development of the island as the location of two luxury-style vacation homes.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Calls for Mumia Abu-Jamal's Release

California prison hunger strikers propose ‘10 core demands’ for the national Occupy Wall Street Movement

December 6, 2011

by Heshima Denham, Zaharibu Dorrough and Kambui Robinson

Georgia prisons on fire

December 6, 2011

by Eugene Thomas

Written Nov. 28, 2011 – On Nov. 25, Hancock State Prison in Sparta, Georgia, erupted into a full scale riot, as prisoners ran off the guards in several of the cell houses (euphemistically called dormitories, as though this was a college campus) in protest over abuses by guards and grievances unresolved by administrators.