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What Happens When Prisoners Go on Strike?

September 27, 2018

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More than 2,000 firefighters battling the blaze in California this summer came from inside the state鈥檚 prison system. They were part of a national workforce of incarcerated people, paid pennies per hour and sometimes nothing at all, for hourly labor benefiting the U.S. economy. Driven in part by demands for better working conditions and wages, incarcerated workers last month began a nationwide prison strike. David Fathi, a longtime prison rights advocate and director of the 老澳门开奖结果 National Prison Project, discusses the strike and the organizers鈥 demands.

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