There were people on twitter talking about how prison labor often isn't voluntary. One man described having to work in cotton fields all day, every day in the burning sun being looked over by sniper towers and guards on horseback. If you refused to work you were sent to solitary confinement.
Write a prison strike organizer. A lot of them are still in lockup. Their names are on the IWW IWOC website and the Jailhous Lawyers Speak website.
Edit: letters keep folks safe because they look like a support network to guards. Then they start thinking "maybe I shouldn't beat this guy up, he's got people who might sue me."
Prison labor is voluntary, but if you talk to any ex-cons or prisoners about it, it's not really voluntary. This guy got sent to solitary for trying to organize his fellow prisoners, solitary confinement is known to be torture.
There were people on twitter talking about how prison labor often isn't voluntary. One man described having to work in cotton fields all day, every day in the burning sun being looked over by sniper towers and guards on horseback. If you refused to work you were sent to solitary confinement.
Write a prison strike organizer. A lot of them are still in lockup. Their names are on the IWW IWOC website and the Jailhous Lawyers Speak website.
Edit: letters keep folks safe because they look like a support network to guards. Then they start thinking "maybe I shouldn't beat this guy up, he's got people who might sue me."