Monday, 24 October 2016

Inside America's biggest prison strike: 'The 13th amendment didn't end slavery'

Inside America's biggest prison strike: 'The 13th amendment didn't end slavery'

Richard Castillo has not yet been convicted of the crime – evading police in a vehicle – of which he stands accused. But he has been imprisoned since February 2013, including 12 months in solitary confinement. He still has a bullet lodged in his leg from being shot during his arrest, and his hand was broken in 10 places in a raid by guards on his accommodation block in June. His son, who turned 10 a few days after his father was imprisoned, is now nearly 14. His four-year-old daughter cries for her father every day, his wife Victoria said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/22/inside-us-prison-strike-labor-protest??source=Snapzu

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