Prisons in Texas endeavour to torture their captives through extreme heat, and to sicken them with arsenic in the drinking water; take a moment to check out this video from Houston TV News 8 on the situation at the Coffield Unit:
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Kersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Texas Prisoners’ Plan Work Strike, April 4th
Prisoners in Texas are planning a work strike, to commence this April 4th. Their top five demands are:
Meaningful Work Time – Applied retroactively, when our Flat Time and accrued Good/Work Time equals 100% we should be ENTITLED to Mandatory Supervision I Parole.
We want a “Presumptive Parole System” which requires the release of a Prisoner at their earliest release date, unless there are valid objective reasons not to do so. Those reasons might include poor institutional behavior or refusing to participate in programming. The nature of the crime or any other “Static Reason” (things prisoners can NOT change) would ………..READ MORE