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Breaking: Reached in his cell, Free Alabama Movement leader tells Salon inmates will refuse work to end free labor VIDEO
Exclusive: Inmates to strike in Alabama, declare prison is “running a slave empire”
Breaking: Reached in his cell, Free Alabama Movement leader tells Salon inmates will refuse work to end free labor VIDEO
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Inmates at an Alabama prison plan to stage a work stoppage this weekend and hope to spur an escalating strike wave, a leader of the effort told Salon in a Thursday phone call from his jail cell.
“We decided that the only weapon or strategy … that we have is our labor, because that’s the only reason that we’re here,” said Melvin Ray, an inmate at the St. Clair correctional facility and founder of the prison-based group Free Alabama Movement. “They’re incarcerating people for the free labor.” Spokespeople for Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley and his Department of Corrections…
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