Watch VideoFor more than three weeks, prisoners in Alabama went on strike — refusing to work and demanding humane prison conditions.
Alabama's prisons have some of the highest rates of homicide and rape in the country, according to a 2019 Department of Justice report. The Department of Justice has called the state...
Inmates Are Pushing Back Against Working In U.S. Prisons
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