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PR Prisoners Rebel
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1994, page 12
On July 10, 1994, more than 8,000 prisoners in 16 prisons across the US occupied island of Puerto Rico went on strike to protest overcrowding and bad living conditions. Puerto Rico's 34 prisons hold almost 11,000 prisoners. For the first ten days of the strike prisoners refused to do their ...
Filed under:
Organizing,
Prison Rebellion,
Work Strikes,
Prisoners-International.
Location:
Puerto Rico.
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