Inside The Prison Strikes Rippling Across The Country (HBO)

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Inside The Prison Strikes Rippling Across The Country (HBO)

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In September, inmate strikes at U.S. prisons spread into what’s believed to be the largest prison strike in American history. In a coordinated protest against a range of prison conditions, a total of 24,000 inmates in at least 12 states refused to work or eat.
Using a contraband cellphone, inmate Kinetic Justice spoke to VICE News’ Antonia Hylton about what led to strikes at Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama. “The conditions were so horrific and deplorable that sewage was actually coming up in the dormitory,” he explained. Then Holman’s correctional officers joined in the action to address overcrowding and understaffing, staging a protest of their own with nearly a dozen quitting or going on leave.
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@JewTube001 7 жыл бұрын

Some people here don't seem to realize not every prisoner is a serial killer or a child rapist.

@anoknskyle2243 Жыл бұрын

Even if they are, do you think they should be treated the way they're being treated?

@JN-wn1kw 7 жыл бұрын

decriminalize drugs and you solve the problem at it's root.

@joavalgoli 7 жыл бұрын

Jonty Norling Exactly,but that's going to take a lot of time to happen sadly.

@Johnnytheedeer 7 жыл бұрын

Jonty Norling yes! the Gov't does not belong in morality, this idea worked well in Portugal/Spain.

@invisiblerevolution 7 жыл бұрын

Jonty Norling A society where everyone is free to do CRACK & PCP.......ya that will work out REALLY fine :/

@joavalgoli 7 жыл бұрын

ALKEBU-LAN Hey,we're doing good here in Portugal.Most addicts recover from their addictions and AIDS and other drug related dieseases rates are pretty low.

@hombreg1 7 жыл бұрын

+ALKEBU-LAN well... if crack and pcp is dirt cheap and available, wouldn't most nasties just die from overdose?

@Tearakan 7 жыл бұрын

Holy fuck if it is bad enough that officers are quitting then you have a huge fucking problem. I feel sorry for the inmates not in there for violent offenses. They are screwed.

@joavalgoli 7 жыл бұрын

Tearakan Yeah,unfortunaly we have retards who think they are all the same.

@MacDaddy635 7 жыл бұрын

Holman is a solitary confinement prison for violent offenders. Watch the video before you comment.

@Oodain 7 жыл бұрын

one would be naive to think this problem isn't endemic, there isn't an industrialized nation in the world that doesn't look at the us prison system with at least a little contempt, this is one of the reasons why.

@MacDaddy635 7 жыл бұрын

Oodain I think it's funny that people are outraged by this. Look at how the USA treats honest, hard-working but low earning people. They aren't eligible for government funded health care, they often aren't afforded worker's compensation and God forbid they seek paid paternal leave.

@rochat 7 жыл бұрын

It's hard to feel bad for the murderers and rapists, but the simple fact is that there are also people there for non violent crimes who also have to live like this. Prison is suppose to rehabilitate, not lock in a shitty hole waiting for release. Is it really a surprise though with the way the corporate prison industry is run? There are things that corporations shouldn't be allowed to run and prisons is one of them. Given that Hillary is likely to win and she's taken money from the prison industry, I don't expect anything to change anytime in the near future.

@rochat 4 ай бұрын

@Praw-Too-Ehleem maybe you should look up the definition of rehabilitation.

@rochat 4 ай бұрын

@Praw-Too-Ehleem I'm not arguing with stupid and ending a sentence with lol doesn't make you right.

@JoeSlops 7 жыл бұрын

Incarceration in the USA is a for-profit system and the bottom line is all that matters.

@samcampbell6458 6 жыл бұрын

my name is sam campbell ais# 195287, i started doing time in alabama prisons, for 2 burglaries and a theft charge, i received 20 years for those crimes, i done almost 15 years on that 20. there is something going on with me and the alabama department of corrections at the moment that i can not speak about on here, but if you would like a interview I'm willing to talk , i want people to know about some horrible things i witnessed while doing my time. thank you

@zackaryhodge900 4 жыл бұрын

Im willing to talk to ais#288804 I did a year and 6 months for a youthful offender charge at bullock prison. Overcrowded and dangerous

@zackaryhodge900 4 жыл бұрын

@BladeArtist 205 I sure am Winston county sent me down. How about you? Huntsville?

@zackaryhodge900 4 жыл бұрын

@BladeArtist 205 and your totally right ADOC is a fucking gladiator school. But people get it twisted, if you stand up for yourself you'll be okay

@annetteslife 3 жыл бұрын

I have never done time but I am willing to listen to you

@StreetHierarchy 7 жыл бұрын

The IQ level in this comment section is sub-Gump.

@annetteslife 3 жыл бұрын

Just like you! Who sounds like you have and IQ of a pea

@nishitraj. 7 жыл бұрын

Is Vice News on fire today?

@obsoleteoptics 7 жыл бұрын

*Human beings were never meant to be kept in cages!*

@alexhennigh5242 7 жыл бұрын

This walks such a fine line for me. On the one hand they are humans and deserve proper treatment because of such but on the other hand those who committed the truly heinous crimes I find it really hard to sympathize with. Good volley Vice, you've left me befuddled yet again

@jonesnj07 7 жыл бұрын

the way i see it is if someone is in the care of the government, they have to be kept at a certain standard, because if you allow the government to let someone die in their care, you grant the government permission to let anyone die in their care, but i also believe in the death penalty for the most vicious crimes.

@millionfish 7 жыл бұрын

Alex Hennigh I get where you're coming from, but a ton of these prisoners are in for minor offences, or have been convicted wrongfully because of the color of their skin. It's all to make the private prisons rich.

@zacfowler4573 7 жыл бұрын

in defense of this particular video, these men in this MAXIMUM SECURITY prison for a reason. they are not in for minor offenses and covictions for the color of their skin. Not saying that there arent people in prison for those reason because there certainly are but they arent at that place.

@urxtoxicxface1 7 жыл бұрын

Keep non-violent crime inmates out of prison bet that would clear up plenty of space.

@kevjtnbtmglr 7 жыл бұрын

state sponsored sadism, or was this a private prison?

@savedrotex 7 жыл бұрын

Good job Vice, thanks for bringing this issue to the limelight.

@teipsum4887 7 жыл бұрын

you people say these horrible things in the comments. but what if it was your child in the prison

@linussaxvik25 7 жыл бұрын

Y'all know that most people in prison did not commit murder right?

@Bxhell1030 7 жыл бұрын

Why aren't you guys covering the events in Mosul?

@nicholasvrbka6120 7 жыл бұрын

Because it isn't the USA's business.

@Bxhell1030 7 жыл бұрын

Are you being sarcastic? You remember who invaded Iraq and then left Mosul to be taken by extremists? You're aware there are thousands of US 'military advisors there'? anyway vice news became popular because of stories about war zones, not the crap they're doing now.

@thevoxofreason8468 7 жыл бұрын

First I've heard of this. Thanks for covering it.

@mandypowell5948 2 жыл бұрын

As a female CO in an Alabama prison, I’m about to quit due to being over worked and under payed. Making $17 an hour isn’t worth it.

@angelflores4209 6 жыл бұрын

I did ten years in Californias prison system. And can say that the system is organised in a way that promotes prisoner on prisoner violence. Administration is aware of all issues but refuses to find a resolutions to the probkems, I'm not saying be gentle, with prisoners Give them their humanity, you treat a prisoner like an animal and expect a functioning member of society upon their release?

@carlosmarquez2122 5 жыл бұрын

He kills a human being and wants to live in a 5star hotel?

@karensims6376 10 ай бұрын

Six years later its still hell. I expect to receive a call any day that my son has been killed he has already been beat so many times just in the last 6 months.

@NoahNobody 7 жыл бұрын

Legalize cannabis, stop putting people in prison for cannabis related crime, and use the money saved to fix the prison system.

@DobermanLover 7 жыл бұрын

This is a maximum security facility...I don't think this is where they send nonviolent offenders. Maybe shit like this will be a deterrent to people who value OTHER PEOPLE'S rights, freedom and safety as much as they value their OWN rights and freedoms...

@carlosmarquez2122 5 жыл бұрын

He's lucky he is not in prison here in El salvador or any central american prison

@GthemanTM 7 жыл бұрын

Solidarity with Striking Prisoners and the IWW-IWOC! (Hopefully that triggered all you regular trolls on vice comments).

@hudsoncharles4110 7 жыл бұрын

How do you strike from slavery. These people aren't compensated as workers in our society, nor is here an effort made to prepare them to be effective members of society at release.

@blist3274 7 жыл бұрын

They're going to break out. Mark my word

@imsharoo9338 7 жыл бұрын

very educitional

@KingSullification 7 жыл бұрын

Wow this comment section is getting purged hard

@ITsLifePOSITIVE 2 жыл бұрын

Every state prison is Pennsylvania is like this

@kills456 7 жыл бұрын

Not to be that guy but she is beautiful.

@sisenor5854 6 жыл бұрын

It should be worse.

@DeJulius_Caesar 7 жыл бұрын

If only they knew what prisons were like around the world. In my country there are 20 prisoners per room (room only designed to accommodate 10, so half the prisoners sleep on concrete floor) with one shitter. They only get couple of hours of yard time and the rest of the time they are locked up. They don't get privileges like watching tv, eating snacks, reading books or newspapers. There are rats and roaches in cells and the food is literally shit. The concerns these dudes are having are nothing

@stephjuhler999 7 жыл бұрын

Which country is that?

@karensims6376 10 ай бұрын

Ok, So could be worse but could also be better!

@hombreg1 7 жыл бұрын

A question that the general public should answer is: is prison supposed to be a punishment, a business venture or a center of rehabilitation? Depending on how you actually use prisons, many things become either acceptable or not.

@DRU-wg7hq 5 жыл бұрын

Just curious as to why someone that has taken someone elses life feels like they deserve any special treatment at all? Lucky to get a fucking meal in my opinion!

@mckinleymarshall671 Ай бұрын

And this is not a lie because I got in a fight my first day as a correctional officer Holman prison is a messed up place that's the reason why I quit at Holman prison I should have had a lawsuit what the Alabama department of corrections

@yediyahusynagogue9365 3 жыл бұрын

any one read the novel Corrupt officer's Guide to Money? The ADOC had it banned

@LabRat10101 7 жыл бұрын

They need to reform their police and jail system, and don't blame protesters for protesting.

@jacksorensen9449 7 жыл бұрын

If this was a for profit prison it would be all over the news.

@enjoy-ly7zw 7 жыл бұрын

Don't do shit to get you in prison kids

@Felix0770 7 жыл бұрын

So the gards have stopped working and they still cant get out. Must be learned hoplessness.

@Brassard1985 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Alabama prison system is the worst in the nation.

@stevendowdell2450 2 ай бұрын

I was there 21 years 184526

@joemeggs 7 жыл бұрын

Just sad that they are having to lock so many people up in my state. They even considered taking money out of the education fund to fix this.. Protests like this by the guards and inmates is how things change though.

@leesobieszczyk4910 7 жыл бұрын

Murderers and rapist are animals

@antonybro7400 5 жыл бұрын

as america crumbles .... depressing isn't it

@0bservationist 7 жыл бұрын

Pay attention citizens, vice thinks more of your tax dollars need to go toward violent predators.

@jihadartis3408 5 жыл бұрын

Not everybody in that mf killed somebody..a crime..but not murder..n xough xough it pose 2 b for rehabilitation but that's another story 4 another day

@thelittledetailscr7231 7 жыл бұрын

Then don't commit crimes.

@geniir6692 6 жыл бұрын

This is not right!!! We can't turn are backs on this reality. Especially when they the stock market are getting thousands a dollars a day,on each prisoner. thanks vice

@DontTrustShadows 7 жыл бұрын

Fuck this shit, humanity is going soft

@jws14 7 жыл бұрын

You collect prison weapons?

@cathroci 7 жыл бұрын

There should be mention of the 8th amendment, no cruel or unusual punishment.

@paddy3152 7 жыл бұрын

Who else thought they got a skype call?

@Thesleepytoast 7 жыл бұрын

I´ve never understood how the US could treat People like this. "Land of the free" When you look at this and all the racial problems i say Land of the free for who?

@screamindemon9324 7 жыл бұрын

not my first languge so please bear with me but!!! i am a minority from a third world country and i will never go back you have no idea what a great country the states is and you take it for granted i have seen men and women with jewelry and expensive houses walk past people dying/starving in the street in my home country. I would die for America.... so go Fuck yourself

@Thesleepytoast 7 жыл бұрын

Screamin demon I never said that America was bad as a whole what i mean id that there is flaws. As a swede this is a weird way of treating people

@screamindemon9324 7 жыл бұрын

jail is not ment to be nice it should be bad so people do not want to come back

@Thesleepytoast 7 жыл бұрын

Screamin demon Jail is ment to be a place for the prisoners to reflect over what they have done and how they came to that point. We have all committed a crime at one time or another. the thing is you didnt get caught. They did. They should have a chance of a better life justice as everyone else.

@screamindemon9324 7 жыл бұрын

Sleepy Toast that was a maximum security prison i have never done anything that would get me there

@Sender76 7 жыл бұрын

Sorry to say that..but...convicted murder, that's what you deserve man.

@peteblueeyesfromBI 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, no. It's not what he deserves. He deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars. But in a prison, not a dungeon. Because this isn't the middle ages. What does it mean that a society chooses to treat its most despicable members as human beings? It means and shows that we are better than them.

@Sender76 7 жыл бұрын

peteblueeyes yeah go to explain at the murdered family. If they live in dungeon or what

@shannonnewman3091 7 жыл бұрын

prison for profit in the usa,

@HisCarlnessI 7 жыл бұрын

It's not so much a matter of don't know as don't care. Everyone knows prison is an awful environment. It's never been a good place to be and only in some areas of the world has that recently changed very much.