Prison Strikes Across Nation

September 14, 2016 – Segment 2 California Prison Hunger Strike

We continue our discussion on prison uprisings and bring it into the present as the topic turns to prison protests and strikes currently happening around the country. With: Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History in the Department of Afro-American and African Studies, Residential College, and Department of History at the University of Michigan and author of the book Blood in the Water: the Attica Prison uprising of 1971Dominque Stevenson, Program Director for the American Friends Service Committee and co-author with Eddie Conway of Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther; and John Washington, translator and writer for The Nation.