US inmates launch massive strike over ‘modern-day slavery’

‘Prisoners in two dozen American states have gone on strike to protest living conditions and “modern-day slavery,” the biggest of its kind in US history, according to prison rights advocates.
Inmates in prisons in as many as 24 states and 40 facilities are refusing to eat or go to work, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) said Friday.
“Slavery is alive and well in the prison system, but by the end of this year, it won’t be anymore,” the IWOC wrote in a call to action. “This is a call to end slavery in America.”’
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