1. August 8th Lea County Correctional Facility Hobbs, New Mexico Four housing units at the private GEO group prison refused orders to return to their cells and went on strike in response to harassment and abuse— prison administration made cuts to visitation and there were complaints of guards harassing family members.
2. August 9th
Toledo Correctional Facility Toledo, Ohio Two inmates, David Easley and James Ward went on hunger strike at Toledo Correctional Facility (Toledo, Ohio) in response to a call for a national prison strike. [Sept. 14 hunger strike started up again and a third person participated—Matt Hinkston] They were put in protective custody without a hearing to isolate them from the other prisoners and their hunger strike is being denied legitimacy. Some supporters have had their phones and Jpay accounts blocked so they couldn’t communicate with anyone in the prison system.
5. August 21st
6. August 21st
7. Late August Various Locations Georgia & Florida
California State Prison Los Angeles County
Hyde Correctional Institution Fairfield, North Carolina
Jailhouse Lawyers Speak & Other Orgs Issue 10 Demands
Various Locations South Carolina
Lancaster State Prison Lancaster, California
NC prisoner Joseph Stewart issued 8 demands
Sit-down strikes, work stoppages, hunger strikes, and boycotts of the commissary. Organizers stated that the strike was in response to the riot at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina resulting in the death of 7 prisoners.
Prisoners at these institutions are on workstrikes and commissary boycotts; South Carolina DEpartment of Corrections (SCDC) claims that there are no work strikes in South Carolina prisons and some prisoners had confirmed this; one anonymous prisoner says that theyre unable to participate in a no-work strike so theyre participating in a commissary boycott (theyre not spending money with the state).
United Kings Against Genocidal Environments (KAGE) engaged in a hunger strike in response to the call for a National Prison Strike (the strike reportedly lasted 4 weeks).
NATIONAL 8. August 21st
3. August 20th
4. August 21
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Saguaro Correctional Center Eloy, Arizona
Broad River Correctional Institution Columbia, South Carolina
Georgia Diagnostic & Classification State Prison Jackson, Georgia
Lee Correctional Institution Lee County, South Carolina
Georgia State Prison Reidsville, Georgia
McCormick Correctional Institution McCormick, South Carolina
Dade Correctional Institution Homestead, Florida
Turbeville Correctional Institute Clarendon County, South Carolina
Charlotte Correctional Institution Punta Gorda
Kershaw Correctional Institution Lancaster County, South Carolina
Holmes Correctional Institution Bonifay, Florida
Lieber Correctional Institution Ridgeville, South Carolina
Franklin Correctional Institution Carrabelle, Florida Apalachee C.I. Sneads, Florida
PRISON STRIKE
2018
9. August 21st Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility Dartmouth, Nova Scotia Burnside Jail, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia: there were protestors outside of the prison and inmates were demanding improvements to health care, rehabilitation, exercise, visits, clothing, food, air quality, and library access. They asked: We are asking for a more productive rehabilitative environment that supports the wellbeing of everyone in the system. These policy changes will also benefit the workers in the jail.” They brought up the issue of workers’ treatment (re: non-inmates).
10. August 21st California State Prison aka New Folsom Prison Sacramento, California Heriberto “Sharky” Garcia began to hunger strike in response to the National Prison Strike.
11. August 25th
12. August 27th
San Quentin State Prison San Jose, California
Wabash Valley Correctional Facility Carlisle, Indiana
500 people held a rally outside of San Quentin State Prison in support of the National Prison Strike; rally was organized by the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee and Prisoners Human Rights Coalition from San Jose, CA.
Seven prisoners began a hunger strike
13. August 28–29 & September 8–9 Sussex II State Prison Waverly, Virginia
