Nationwide Prison Strikes
This month, prisoners across the country have gone on strike to protest substandard wages and conditions. They hope to draw attention to the nature of the prison labor industry and how inmates are forced to work for wages that can be as low as a few cents an hour--if they are even paid at all. Mother Jones provides details of some of the specific protests in different states and Wired documents how prisoners were able to coordinate the strike, despite the limited communicat