Feedback from Menard Hunger Strikers on Noise Demonstration
The following excerpts are from people locked-up at the High Security Isolation Unit at Menard Correctional Facility in Illinois, responding to a noise demonstration by outside supporters during the hunger strike there last month. To the Drum Beaters, …I have been in Administrative Detention for 15 years without ever being charged. I’ve seen a lot […]
Menard Hunger Strikers’ Response to Noise Demonstration Outside the Prison
From: The Facebook Page of The Uptown People’s Law Center An update from the #Menard Hunger Strike was just released by Alice Lynd, an attorney in Ohio who has been in regular contact with several of the men. The men have won some local support. One of the prisoners wrote: “Yesterday, on Monday Jan. 27, […]
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 […]