Prisoners organized through prison walls to strike, demanding an end to work with no pay, voting rights and for rehabilitation, training, and Education Programs. Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, President of the Ordinary People Society talks about the prison strike
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Great Reporting/Video…Work should Never Be Mandatory, period.. If the prisoner does decide to work, he/she should be paid at least Minimum Wage for that State..
Well, I believe that inmates should have cost of maintaining the prison system and damages occurred from their criminal activities deduced from their wages. And I guess these monies cannot be covered from the kind of labor they can offer while in prison. Also, prison should not be a comfy, care free place everyone would not mind 'chilling' a couple of years in .
Um how about they are in prison, it cost us 30k a year to provide food and board to them. Even if they were being paid $14hr and working a full 40 hour week (which they do not) they would still OWE us money at the end of the year. Slavery my ass.
My baby brother (who is 46) is in prison. Drugs and alcohol led him down the path that ended with him trying to kill another man, but thankfully he was unsuccessful. Sentenced to 20 years in 2011, he realizes the discipline necessary to survive in prison. He has been a teacher of elementary and secondary student (other prisoners), he has been a service dog trainer, training many dogs, he was a union plumber prior to being imprisoned and does plumbing work in prison, he is regularly called upon to perform other unsavory tasks (most recently two suicides, one being a jump from the high walk, another being a hanging-both within the last week) He is presently taking university classes, provided by a university that costs $21,000 a semester (not including other fees, books, housing). Most importantly, he is sober. He still smokes cigarettes, he has become a Buddhist, while maintaining Christianity. He is, to me, and to himself and others who love him, better off than when. he was free to roam and terrorize. He too, complains of not being paid enough, especially for plumbing, which as a union plumber he was hauling in the jack! Factually, he is not "earning his keep". I agree there are many problems with our prison system, but the earning power of prisoners is not one of them.
I was a police officer in a large metro for 37 years and cannot imagine being someone having to police all of the prisoners convicted and in prison. Being police, at least you get to interact with the 95% of people who are not breaking the law or being a menace to society (my stat)
God bless our police, God bless our prisoners, God bless the jailers and give them discernment and strength. God bless us all.
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I could not imagine in my wildest imagination that it could look like this in 2018. Wondering how they prepare the prisoners so that they can manage when they are released from prison without committing new crimes.
You can thank Israel for a lot of these private prisons in America,the very same people who legislated the war on drugs in the first place.
13th and is NOT a loophole, it's how to deal with animals.
I've been saying that slavery was modified
The two states and private prison corporations involved will react by brutalizing prisoners suspected of helping to organize this strike.
Thank you Marc Steiner, and thank you Real News
the prison system is just that. A system that assures prisoners return soon after being released. The private corporations have concocted a way to make a fortune off of poor ppl. The poor are a valuable resource for the wealthy here in the good old USA.
Exactly. Dem POTUS hopeful (Democrat Rising Star) Kamala Harris, when she was the totally corrupt California Attorney General (running legal cover for million $ embezzlement at San Francisco City Hall by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, Mayor Ed Lee and Comptroller Ben Rosenfield) argued in court AGAINST court ordered release of Prisoners for Overcrowding, because "California needs the labor to meet its Budget needs". The California Prisoner are slave unpaid wildfire 1st Responders, fighting wildfires to save the houses of Tech/Banking millionaires, including Jerry Brown's own Sister's house (saved!). Last year during the fires north of LA in Ventura County, Governor Ole Frackin' Jerry Brown, (at a news conference) Thanked the Slave Fire Fighters, then said "I'm flying to Paris for a Climate Change Meeting, I'll be back on Thursday to see how your doing." True, the Frackin Governor flies to Paris (quite often) to tell other people to reduce carbon emissions. (good work, if you can get it.)
Give prisoners the vote? Shouldn't they show they can obey the law before we trust them to make laws?
What's the average cost? Annually..
In England prisoner's will do laundry for prisons but there is no forced labour plus young people can still be in a Youth facility at 21 not perfect far from it but not as bad a Usa love from Uk ! Peace
The 13th amendment, the new Jim Crow, and modern day slavery are crimes against humanity. We need to end the corrupt profit system of the prison industrial complex. Tax payers' money serving corporate interests. Real News, thank you for covering the strike.
Prison isn't helping the prisoners and is incredibly expensive. But when it comes to violent criminals, it's our best option to protect people. I'd say we remove the citizenship of violent offenders and invite them out of the country.