A New Spy Scandal Exposes the Corruption of Privatized Intelligence Friday October 14th, 2016 at 5:48 PM
A New Spy Scandal Exposes the Corruption of Privatized Intelligence Friday October 14 th , 2016 at 5:48 PM The Nation 1 Share Protesters block the street outside McDonald's in downtown Portland, Oregon, during a nationwide day of action against prison slavery. (AP Photo / Sipa) S ince September 9, inmates in at least 29 prisons ( maybe as many as 50 ) have staged labor strikes, hunger strikes, and various kinds of protests. The actions took place in at least 12 states and involved at least 24,000 inmates (and potentially many more). Taken together, the past month has seen one of the largest, if not the largest, prison protest in US history. Organized across facilities and states and planned for the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising , the actions have disrupted incarceration-as-usual across the country. And yet few people outside inmate solidarity networks have heard anything about it. 1 The national awareness gap boils dow