Chicago, IL–On Monday, October 24, a group of detainees in the Cook County Jail refused trays from the mess hall in a collective act of defiance. According to a family member of a striker who spoke with Perilous, the strike was organized in protest of the harsh and, in some cases, retaliatory COVID-19 restrictions undertaken […]| Perilous
By Ryan Fatica, September 30, 2022 This article originally published by Unicorn Riot Prisoners across Alabama launched a coordinated work stoppage Monday, refusing to attend their work assignments and essentially shutting down normal operations of the prison system in the state. Although the exact number of prisoners on strike is unknown, an outside organizer with […]| Perilous
According to a letter shared with Perilous Chronicle by an outside support group that is in touch with the protesting detainees, a group of approximately 40 people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Richwood Correctional Center conducted a peaceful protest by sitting in the yard on Thursday, August 4 and again on August […]| Perilous
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and in the lingering post-era of the murder of George Floyd, the Donald Trump presidency, the January 6th Capitol Riot, and especially of the 2017 Delaware prison uprising that led to correctional officer Lt. Stephen Floyd being murdered, there is an unremitting momentum of both racial tension and combativeness in Delaware between correctional officers and prisoners mirroring the tension in the outside community between police officers and civilians.| Perilous
According to information released by the Pima County Sheriff’s Office and information gathered by a Reuters investigation last year, 2021 is now the deadliest year for the Pima County Adult Detention Complex since at least 2009 with one person dying in the jail about every 31 days.| Perilous
A movement is growing amongst detainees inside the Minnesota Sex Offenders Program in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Since mid-August, dozens of detainees held at the secure treatment facility have been meeting in the yard for rallies, speak-outs, and peaceful demonstrations. They are calling for an end to their indefinite detention under Minnesota’s civil commitment law, which they say is a violation of their constitutional rights.| Perilous
Admitted pipeline-saboteur Ruby Montoya filed a motion seeking to withdraw her guilty plea, claiming she was coerced into signing it by her previous attorneys, movement “leaders”, and her abusive father. The motion also claims that government agents may have taught Montoya to use a welder and encouraged her to use it for pipeline sabotage, indicating a possible entrapment defense.| Perilous
Protestors gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, WA Saturday to call for an end to immigrant detention. The demonstration was organized by La Resistencia, a local immigrant rights organizing group, in response to a national call for days of action on August 21 and Sep 9 to commemorate Black August from Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, a prisoner-organized abolitionist network.| Perilous
20 prisoners at the David Wade Correctional Center in northern Louisiana started a hunger strike to protest their confinement| Perilous
Forty detainees at the Moose Lake Correctional facility in Minnesota began a hunger strike on July 4. This is the second hunger strike this year at the facility where detainees and advocates claim the Minnesota Sex Offendor Progam (MSOP) is unconstitutionally detaining people after they have completed their prison sentences with no clear path to release.| Perilous
