Something that has been largely ignored by the mainstream media outlets including the majority of the ones in Georgia itself. This is the inmates in prisons across the state of Georgia have been striking over the lack of humane conditions in the state and county prisons. According to the Black Agenda Report, the prisons are only leaving their cells for hot showers and food, but refusing to participant in their involuntary and uncompensated work assignments. Their demands includes demanding wages for their labor, educational opportunities, adequate health care and nutrition, and better conditions. They have the support of the Georgia chapter of the NAACP, the Nation of Islam, the National Association for Radical Prison Reform, the Green Party of Georgia, the Ordinary Peoples Society, and the Concerned Coalition to Protect Prisoner Rights, which is a coalition comprised of civil rights attorneys, ministers, community organizations and other prisoner advocates.
This is understandable considering according to the 2005 report conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, blacks makes up 39.8% of the prison population. That's more than 1 in 3 blacks are or have been incarcerated Something that obviously affects most black Americans since most of us either know or are related to somebody that has or is prison. Hopefully, this will end peacefully and the inmates will get their grievances fulfilled and have humane standards in the Georgia Department of Corrections systems.
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