Kershaw Warden Gary Lane 803-896-3301 or 803-475-5770

Despite the fact that prisoners at Burnside Jail in Nova Scotia, Canada have been on strike since August 19th, the Nova Scotia Department of Justice has denied any protest on the inside, and Justice Minister Mark Furey has refused to comment publicly since the strike began. Please call the office of Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey in solidarity with prisoners at Burnside. The prisoners are making important, reasonable demands for their health, rehabilitation, and humane treatment.

Resistance flares up in the IDOC once again. We've received word that a hunger strike has begun at Westville Correctional Facility in Westville, Indiana.

The demands of these inmates are much the same as the recently concluded and severely repressed hunger strike at Wabash Valley: insufficient and inedible meals, freezing cold temperatures, lack of access to commissary, etc.

Details of this strike are still coming in but all accounts are that it is ongoing meaning the inmates need immediate and consistent outside support.

Please Call:

On August 21, over 200 people detained at Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington began a hunger strike and work stoppage. Call the immigration prison and tell them to honor the hunger strikers demands.

Prisoners held within the Hyde Correctional Institution, a facility in Fairfield, NC, were threatened with retaliation for their active support and organizing in solidarity with the national #PrisonStrike. Two prisoners in particular - Todd J Martin, and Jace Buras - are being designated by prison faculty as strike organizers. They're facing threats of administrative repression, as are any other fellow prisoners connected to the national strike.

On May 12th, prison rebels at Crossroads Correctional Center in Missouri staged a sit in. Prison officials refused their demands and the action escalated. During the uprising, the property room was destroyed. Prisoners are asking the administration to replace the lost and damaged property.

People in prison at the McCormick facility in South Carolina were pre-emptively targeted in the lead up to the national strike. Call and demand the end to the repression.