Inmates Where Troy Davis Was Executed Engaged in Massive Hunger Strike
It appears that the prison inmates at the Jackson State Correctional Facility have staged a hunger strike. Inmates are being locked down and those believed to be leaders of the protest are being punished by authorities. Accounts from inmates families report that the prisoners are being left without medical attention and are weak from hunger. But they continue to fight on for access to better conditions for themselves and their fellow inmates.
Congressional testimony has been taking place recently which focuses on torture in America’s prison facilities. One man says that he saw another prisoner eat his own eye after going insane from solitary confinement. Black Agenda Report tells more:
State corrections say they rounded up 37 whom they believed were the strike leaders and put them under close confinement at Jackson, the same prison where Troy Davis was executed last year. Most of these prisoners have remained there in close confinement, with severely restricted access to visits, communication and their attorneys, and without medical attention for the past 18 months.
Some of these men are the Jackson State prison hunger strikers. After two weeks, according to the families of Miguel Jackson and Preston Whiting, they are weak from hunger and subject to fainting spells. But they seem to believe they have little to lose. They are, a letter from one of them asserts, “starving for change.” There were originally ten of them, but some may have been transferred out, and some other prisoners joined the strike. We hope to have clearer information tomorrow.
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Yes,
Prison should be a place for rehabilitation by presenting the inmates with what the right way in life should look like. Healing from the street pressures.
Better education measures!
Not punished for ever and ever and ever!
Other countries have a measure of law in place that even for murder one serves 45 years and is released.
Our youngsters are vacuumed into the system by the c**p out on the streets that started with adults a long time ago.
Even so called professionals are committing crimes and drugs are a part of it for many.
Many shall learn from their mistakes while in there but punished for life.
Not even having therapy, psychological therapy? Depression?
Please create a program of forgiveness that would cut the time for those serving life and long sentences. They are going in way too young only to be wasting away!
Many out there don’t feel a sense of worth and engage in senseless crimes.
We must love our youth and encourage them to love themselves and they will love others in return.
As Michael Jackson sang “You better make a way for the young folks” yeah, yeah, yeah!
Prisons will be abolished in a future world government. But for now the mercy of a civilization can be judged by the condition in it’s prisons and how it treats the elderly, widows and orphans. Our report card does not look so good. The prison industrial complex is being modernized for tightly controlled governance.
To those who worship themselves all others are deemed to be idolaters. This sets up a cycle of elimination that breeds death, mayhem and chaos. The last man standing will find himself standing in a wasteland with hungry predators surrounding him. Those who eliminate others face the beasts. Until we learn to esteem others as greater than ourselves and incorporate the wisdom therein, prison will continue to be the concentration camps of the gifted and determined to prosper in the administration of oppression.
Are you kidding? its prison not a summer holiday camp ,maybe these inmates should have thought about their actions and conduct before they ended up inside.
Marcus ARE YOU SERIOUS!! A prisoner is not a slave and not meant to be tortured. They are still human beings. Most locked up on petty drug charges which by no means equate to being treated so inhumanly. Ever heard of the 8th amendment BUDDY!! I suggest you take a trip down CONSTITUTION LANE MY BROTHA!!
He said this same c**p on another page of the same story. I will comment here as I did ther: What if Mr “Marcus Davis” (if that’s his real name) was falsely accused and thrown into prison, as is the fate of many innocent Americans each year?
Of course, as many people erroneously believe, I’m sure he feels that this would never happen to him because either: he’s White and stands firmly in the belief that “the justice system works” as many always say, he unconsciously feels that he is above the law, or he believes he’d be able to fight.
And what about the prisoners with 5-10 year sentences? what happens when they are released from these prisons into society?
The Returning Citizen’s are ready to fight against these inhumane conditions thats going on thorugh out this country against imates we the people must stand in massives in order to over throw these injustices thats going on in the prison systems.
Funny…This country is always going someplace else to “civilize” others..so shameful
So aptly put! Yes, they are always killing people for their own good— to bring “Democracy.”
Hey Legallychisis let talk bout the Constitution, where on this paper does it has a African American signature from man or woman, but there was a African American man present when it was signed and his name was John Hanson, but I don’t recall his name a part of this paper nor any woman of color name on this paper, so when their forefathers signed this paper they didn’t include a woman name so i guess in their minds a woman place was in the kitchen and bedroom back then, but a woman a very powerful force that walk this planet and she has equal right just like man has, but everybody screams on the Constitution well all these guys who signed it are dead and gone and when u say We the people what People were THEY talking bout or race, so in the history books I see all caucasian men who some were slave owner doing the time this paper was signed but now since they are gone those men didn’t say we as EQUAL AMERICANS can’t resigned it and this time add a Woman name and Equal races of color name to this paper to make it for EVERYONE not just cover one being of people, but u know if a man or woman of color was smart when they stand before the judge when he ask how they plea I SAY ONTO THE PEOPLE OF COLORS AND WOMEN OF ALL RACES SCREAM OUT AND SAY CONSTITUTIONAL IMMUNITY! Cause the words on this paper only cover certain people not African Americans or women of any race it only covers one since one only was in charge at the time when it was written cause African American weren’t citizens when it was sign and that’s real right, and your thoughts on that.
BLACXKCOBRA//PRINCE OF THA UNITEX STATES
My name is Delma Jackson and I am the wife of Miguel Jackson. I have read your comments and I appreciate those that have compassion & humanity in their hearts. For those that say heartless things I ignore it because its merely ignorance or racism. Nowhere in his sentence does it say that he would be handcuffed and beaten with hammers. Nowhere does it say that officers would take turns trying to break his nose. Nowhere does it say that he would be denied medical treatment and put in solitary confinement for 18 months. Nowhere does it say that he would be denied something a simple as a toothbrush. What acceptable reason could someone have for spray painting the windows black besides trying to drive someone insane. My husband joined the hunger strike because he felt he had no other alternative. Now because he has PEACEFULLY gone without eating for 16 days they want to retaliate and revoke his visits with his family. I ask you how much more does he have to endure? They didn’t sentence him to death but what they are doing is torture and its Unconstitutional. Its hard for me to believe that this is America.
Do anybody on here cares if George Zimmerman is treated humanely in prison? I certainly don’t. I hope they beat the s**t out of him, and rape him. If one of these inmates, had done something bad against one of your family members, or friends, you’d have a different point of view. Yes, there are some innocent people in prisons, but as in war, there are some friendly, and civilian casualties, and no, I wouldn’t want to be wrongly accused, and sent to prison. That is why I try to avoid people, places, and things that can lead to this.