US inmates claim retaliation by prison officials as result of multi-state strike

Prisoners and their families say strike ‘leaders were picked off, one by one’ and sent to solitary confinement or suddenly transferred

As a multi-state prison strike continues through a second week, many participants have been hit by prison officials with swift and vicious reprisals, advocates, prisoners and their families said.

It is claimed that inmates – especially those seen as organizers – have been subject to solitary confinement, revocation of communication privileges and long-distance transfers, in attempts to weaken the effects of work stoppages and to chill dissent.

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