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November 16, 2020

Prisoners Have Led 100+ Strikes over Dangerous Conditions During Pandemic
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A new report has found prisoners organized over 100 strikes between
March and June in response to dangerous conditions inside jails and
prisons amid the pandemic. Perilous, a digital research and media group
that authored the report, said prisoners rose up across 39 states, with
most protests happening inside immigrant prisons.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, over 250,000 people in jails and
prisons have tested positive for the coronavirus, and over 1,400
prisoners and staffers have died. Perilous referred to the uprisings as
"clearly one of the most massive waves of prisoner resistance in the
past decade."


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