“‘That’s because it was a peaceful strike,’ said Dr. Breea Willingham, a criminal justice professor at State University of New York at Plattsburgh. ‘If people were getting killed inside those prisons, people would have been all over it.’ The relative lack of attention to the strike underlined the continued indifference to widespread claims of abuse and inhumane conditions inside the nation’s prison system, observers and prison activists told The Crime Report.“

The Crime Report

September 11, 2018