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From Socialist Alternative: Urgent Solidarity: Prisoner Activist Facing Violent Retaliation?Support Shawn Whatley! Stop all retaliations against Georgia prison strike activists!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

This is an email from The Socialist Alternative For more information contact them directly at: info@socialistalternative.org. Urgent Solidarity: Prisoner Activist Facing Violent Retaliation?Support Shawn Whatley! Stop all retaliations against Georgia prison strike activists! Jan 26, 2011 By SocialistAlternative.org In the aftermath of the historic prison strike in Georgia, inmate activists are facing systematic violence and repression. On December 9, inmates across six Georgia prisons staged a week-long strike to demand an end to endemic human rights abuses, arbitrary violence, slave-like labor conditions, profiteering and corruption, inadequate food and medical care, among other abuses. On January 12, 2011 inmate activist Shawn Whatley was handcuffed by prison guards as his cell was searched for a contraband cell phone...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 01, 2011 (boomark / email).