Texas prison officials monitoring inmate hunger strike...

[Crude Abolitionist]

IOWA PARK, Texas (AP) — A spokesman for the Texas prison system says officials are “closely monitoring” a hunger strike involving about 40 inmates that started eight days ago.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst said by email Tuesday that 37 prisoners in segregation are participating. The number has fallen since Sunday, when he told the Houston Chronicle that 45 inmates were involved.

The inmates refusing meals are housed at the Allred Unit in Iowa Park, about 120 miles northwest of Fort Worth near the Oklahoma border.

Hurst says they began refusing meals on Christmas but some have food in their cells that they purchased from the commissary.

He says the department “will take appropriate action as needed,” but did not elaborate.

He says the inmates have complained about recreational time, food portions and the temperature.

Texas prison officials monitoring inmate hunger strike

They gave one sentience in this shallow article about that the prisoners are actually sticking for... They are being fed poison, they don't get to go outside, and they are freezing or burning up...They want to suppress their voices. They know if more people find out what is happening inside these prisons things will change. I have read several stories about prisoners being trapped in extreme weather conditions hot or cold. The prisons do nothing about it they just don't care.

We all have to support prison abolition it can easily be anyone of us locked up for nothing wasting away and being tormented.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

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[Easy-E]

Criminal justice > getting rich

I get screamed on becuz I think this more important than getting rich

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Criminal justice > getting rich

I get screamed on becuz I think this more important than getting rich

Being free of slavery certainly is better than being rich. Because you can be rich one day and locked up in a cell building chairs for 10 cents an hour the next day.

 

[DakotaRed]

Our jail system is a complete fukking joke.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Our jail system is a complete fukking joke.

Its just a system of slavery is all it is.

Did they care if slavers were cold? No.

They gave us like a 1 pair of tattered pants and shirt per year. Gave no fukks about it.

Still to this day it has not changed people were just told that slavery ended when it never did.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

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[thekingsmen]

damn

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Its very cold right now in Texas plenty of innocent people freezing in cells.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

Bump for slavery abolitionism.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

NY POST picked up on it.

https://nypost.com/2018/01/02/prison-officials-monitoring-inmate-hunger-strike-in-texas/

 

[George's Dilemma]

This will give them incentive to stay out of prison.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

This will give them incentive to stay out of prison.

This is an ignorant statement. People are in there innocent alot for non violent crimes. People are set up...

Amerikkka has brainwashed people into thinking if you are in jail or prison you are worthless and you are a 100 guilty thus you deserve to be subjected to slavery.

Stop it.

 

[George's Dilemma]

This is an ignorant statement. People are in there innocent alot for non violent crimes. People are set up...

Amerikkka has brainwashed people into thinking if you are in jail or prison you are worthless and you are a 100 guilty thus you deserve to be subjected to slavery.

Stop it.

I don't dispute that there aren't a few in there unjustly, but they're a minority. Most aren't in there for doing something constructive and that's a Max Security facility. They're not in there for jaywalking. Another thing is the ones on the food strike are those in segregation. Which likely means they're prison gang members and associates. I'm not a fan of indeterminate SHU stays as its inhumane and creates a bigger problem upon release. Certainly reform is needed. But lets stop romanticizing criminals already. They didn't play by the rules in society and ended up in prison. While in prison they again they didn't play by the rules and ended up in SEG. Now they're on a hunger strike. Well I'm going to enjoy a bowl of ice cream on their behalf to show solidarity.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

I don't dispute that there aren't a few in there unjustly, but they're a minority. Most aren't in there for doing something constructive and that's a Max Security facility. They're not in there for jaywalking. Another thing is the ones on the food strike are those in segregation. Which likely means they're prison gang members and associates. I'm not a fan of indeterminate SHU stays as its inhumane and creates a bigger problem upon release. Certainly reform is needed. But lets stop romanticizing criminals already. They didn't play by the rules in society and ended up in prison. While in prison they again they didn't play by the rules and ended up in SEG. Now they're on a hunger strike. Well I'm going to enjoy a bowl of ice cream on their behalf to show solidarity.

Just admit you don't care about slavery never being ended and get the fukk out of my thread.

Criminals are not slaves. They are people. Who here is romanticizing anything? I'm here to spread the word about Slavery because it never ended. Black people don't play by their rules by mere existence so save me the officer (slaver catcher talk) I'm not here for it. Prisons started in Amerikkka to put black people back into slavery. Learn your history because you sound like a fukking cac cop/lawyer/prosecutor/judge all that bullshyt.

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