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Interview with Staughton Lynd by Amy Goodman: Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hunger Strike to Protest 17+ Year Solitary Confinement

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hunger Strike to Protest 17+ Year Solitary Confinement 1-6-11 Four prisoners in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary have launched a hunger strike to protest what they call their harsh mistreatment under solitary confinement. The prisoners?Bomani Shakur, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Namir Abdul Mateen?were sentenced to death for their involvement in the 1993 prison uprising in Lucasville, Ohio. For over 17 years, they have been held in 23-hours-a-day solitary lockdown. On Monday, the four began refusing to eat meals until they are moved out of solitary confinement and onto death row, where they say they will get better treatment. We speak with longtime peace activist, historian and lawyer, Staughton Lynd...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).