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  1. "We Are Striking a Blow at the State:" The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike

    "We see work strikes as a weapon to be used to hit 'em where it hurts. There are many different strategies and tactics that prison rebels use, and work stoppages are just one of them. We organize around the knowledge that prison is slavery and super-exploitation of our labor power. Work stoppages are often violent due to the arena and conditions that prisoners are forced to maneuver in.

    Prisons are, by nature, violent places. The guards are armed to the teeth with pepper spray, batons, sticks, knives, handcuffs, gas, and guns, and they use extreme violence as a mechanism of control. Moreover, organizers of work stoppages must navigate the different groups: gangs, shot-callers, influencers, and dope boys—and believe me, each of them has their own agendas."

    scalawagmagazine.org/2026/02/w

    #FreeMichaelKimble #AnarchistPrisoner #Alabama #PrisonStrike

  2. "It’s been more than three days since Texas prisoners across the state began a hunger strike to protest indefinite solitary confinement, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has confirmed at least 72 people are still starving themselves.

    An activist working with the protesting men believes the number is closer to 120, down from the more than 300 she estimated began refusing food on Tuesday. Striking prisoners are medically evaluated daily, and doctors can force feed a prisoner whose condition worsens, according to prison spokesperson Amanda Hernandez."

    #Texas #PrisonStrike

    texastribune.org/2023/01/13/te

  3. "The strike has now entered its third week, and at least five facilities, each with around 7,000 prisoners, continue to participate. Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) has punished prisoners by drastically reducing their meals, essentially attempting to starve them off the strike." #PrisonStrike #ShutDownADOC2022 itsgoingdown.org/statements-al

  4. CW: prisons, politics

    The warzone is in every city and state: the front lines are in amerikan jails, prisons, detention centers, in the criminalization of poverty and homelessness.
    Everyone taking sides on #Iran but when it comes to battles for freedom in the US, which side are you on?
    #prisonstrike

  5. CW: prisons, politics

    TODAY!
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    RT @[email protected]
    ⚡MONDAY ⚡ROUND 2⚡ for the hungerstrikers in solitary in NC
    Mon is Day 6!
    Get ur people. Make some calls!

    No sleep deprivation torture!
    Mandated rec time!
    Supply mandated notaries for legal filings!

    #prisonstrike

    incarceratedworkers.org/phone-
    twitter.com/IWW_IWOC/status/11

  6. CW: prisons, politics

    ⚡MONDAY ⚡ROUND 2⚡ for the hungerstrikers in solitary in NC
    Mon is Day 6!
    Get ur people. Make some calls!

    No sleep deprivation torture!
    Mandated rec time!
    Supply mandated notaries for legal filings!

    #prisonstrike

    incarceratedworkers.org/phone-

  7. CW: prisons, politics

    Alabama!
    "They're preparing for your future prisons to be filled with your children."
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    RT @[email protected]
    youtu.be/ym-2z6k5k2c Check out this video made with the help of @freeworldnikos to spread the message of Alabama's prison struggles.
    #prisonstrike #SwiftJusticeInc #FAM #TimesUpADOC #TimesUpDOJ #UnheardVoicesOTCJ #UnheardVoicesOTCJ
    twitter.com/UNHEARDVOICES16/st

  8. CW: prisons, politics

    DAY 13 of the foodstrike inside Corcoran 3C.
    Anywhere from 900-1000 of the 1000 capacity unit are still refusing trays from the kitchen until GP/mainline prisoners get the kitchen jobs back.

    #prisonstrike

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    RT @[email protected]
    UPDATE: Today is Day 5 of nearly 1000 ppl inside Corcoran 3C refusing food trays in protest of kitchen jobs being taken from GP prisoners and given to Protective Custody yard.

    BACKGROUND: 3 unit saw a ma…
    twitter.com/IWW_IWOC/status/11

  9. CW: prisons, politics

    mobile.twitter.com/IWW_IWOC/st
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    RT @[email protected]
    CORCORAN 3C FOOD STRIKE
    Parallel to the above 2017 agreement was a deal struck btwn mainline reps and admin that all kitchen jobs would be theirs & they would cooperate with the move of +/- 1800 ppl

    This is the deal 3C is upholding and the warden is breaking 2/
    #prisonstrike
    twitter.com/IWW_IWOC/status/11

  10. CW: prisons, politics

    CORCORAN 3C FOOD STRIKE
    Parallel to the above 2017 agreement was a deal struck btwn mainline reps and admin that all kitchen jobs would be theirs & they would cooperate with the move of +/- 1800 ppl

    This is the deal 3C is upholding and the warden is breaking 2/
    #prisonstrike

  11. CW: prisons, politics

    "Everyone is refusing. Southerners,crips,bloods,woods,Asian, everyone"

    They want their jobs back and PCs not be allowed to prepare or possibly sabotage their food.

    All Corcoran 3C is surviving on one sealed "bag lunch" per day: bologna sandwich, 6 oz milk, fruit

    #prisonstrike

  12. CW: prisons, politics

    BREAKING: Approx 1000 ppl inside Corcoran 3C, a max unit in CA, enter their 3rd day refusing tray. A food strike across all racial lines.

    All their kitchen jobs were taken from them and given to Protective Custody prisoners.

    #prisonstrike

  13. CW: prisons, politics

    "Everybody deserves love, so why should you look at people different for who they love" says Melanie Quick, a prisoner at Shakopee who wore blue in solidarity with her trans and queer fellow prisoners.

    #Solidarity
    #PRIDE
    #prisonstrike

  14. CW: prisons, politics

    CALIFORNIA - In CDCr's Dept Operations Manual...

    The section on "inmate civil rights"? 1/2 of a page.

    The section on how to properly display a flag - 6 pages.

    #abolition
    #prisonstrike

  15. CW: prisons, politics

    Another "not-guilty" verdict in the Vaughn uprising.

    "...appeals to the state's "humanity" don't work, they aren't meant to work."

    #Vaughn #Vaughn17
    #prisonstrike

  16. CW: prisons, politics

    "Austerity" regimes intensifying in the US may well drive the rise of the chaingang again.

    #prisonstrike
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    RT @[email protected]
    “There’s no way we can take care of our facilities, our roads, our ditches, if we didn't have inmate labor,” a former Gulf County commissioner said. “We could not tax our citizens enough...” public.tableau.com/views/Workf
    twitter.com/conarck/status/113

  17. CW: prisons, politics

    Important story.
    Good work by @[email protected] on the largely unstudied and unrecognized reliance on prisoner labor for public works projects and maintenance.

    Poor rural counties basically forcing prisoner labor to combat austerity.

    #prisonstrike
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    RT @[email protected]
    THREAD: Florida prison labor d@[email protected] to the days of emancipation. Some things hardly change. Teams of incarcerated men — disproportionately black —…
    twitter.com/conarck/status/113

  18. CW: prisons, politics

    LESSON: When the sheriff offers y'all a tour of the jail to contain the outrage and protest.

    THREAD
    #prisonstrike
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    RT @[email protected]

    twitter.com/AtlantaIWOC/status