Report back on Solidarity Action with the Menard Correctional Center Hunger Strike
From: Maosoleum Guest post by St. Louis-area collaborator and comrade Ben Lind. Comments and questions are welcome in the comments section or at maosoleumblog@gmail.com. The Menard Correctional Center was built in 1878 and is the largest maximum security institution in the Illinois state prison system. Menard is grossly overcrowded and the prisoners suffer from all of […]
Westville, Indiana: Update on Hunger Strike
The following update is from a hunger strike that happened at a prison in Indiana just a week before the ongoing hunger strike at Menard Correctional Center in Illinois. From: Rififi Received and transmitted: Saturday January 25 Please man the phones on Monday, January 27,2014. Westville Correctional Facility (SUPER-MAX Prison) is retaliating against the inmates […]
Menard hunger strikers endure beating, threats by nurses but vow, ‘We will not let them break us’
From: The San Francisco Bay View The following information is drawn from letters received from prisoners in Administrative Detention at Menard Correctional Center in Menard, Illinois, and compiled on Jan. 25 by Attorney Alice Lynd. Menard Correctional Center, built in 1878, is the largest maximum security prison in the state of Illinois. A 2011 report […]
Update on Hunger Strike at Menard Correctional in Illinois
From: The San Fransisco Bay View On Jan. 15, 2014, approximately 25 prisoners in Administrative Detention at Menard Correctional Center went on hunger strike. The hunger strikers have been told the prison administration is working on obtaining a preliminary injunction to force feed them. They expect to continue the hunger strike even if they are […]
Illinois prisoners in Menard High Security Unit plan to begin hunger strike Jan. 15
More information about the hunger strike going on at Menard. From: San Francisco Bay View by Alice and Staughton Lynd The following information is based on numerous letters from prisoners in the High Security Unit at Menard Correctional Center in Illinois written in December 2013. These prisoners expect to go on hunger strike on Jan. […]
St. Louis History: April 4th, 1968 City Jail Riot
The article below was originally published in the now-defunct St. Louis Globe-Democrat the day after MLK’s murder. The second article is an excerpt from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, containing information about vandalism and arson that took place around the city that night. Both articles use the horrifically outdated term “Negro” to refer to people […]
Potosi Hunger Strike Update
From: Kansas City ABC On October 13th 2013, we received word that nine people in Potosi MO Corrections went on hunger strike. The start date is unclear but we now know the hunger strike lasted three weeks, ending on Oct 20th 2013. Below is the transcript of a letter dated Jan 8 2014 from Shyheim […]
Prisoners on Hunger Strike at Potosi Correctional
The following is an excerpt from a letter written by Shyheim El-Mumin, a prisoner on hunger strike at Potosi Correctional Center in Potosi, MO. He and at least eight other prisoners began their hunger strike on October 13th. At this point, we are unclear as to whether they are still refusing meals. We will post […]
October 22nd March Against Police Brutality
October 22nd March Against Police Brutality The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest on October 22nd, bringing together those under the gun and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose […]
“We need condos babel tall to the sky!”- War on the poor in downtown St. Louis
On Thursday, September 6, in the latest move to displace the homeless, the city of St. Louis closed off the sidewalks of the 1400 block of Locust St. in front of Larry Rice’s New Life Evangelistic Center. The following was first published at CASINO*TOWN*POETS in reaction to the city’s latest move and to the attitudes of […]