GEORGIA PRISON SYSTEM RETALIATES AGAINST PRISONERS INVOLVED IN HISTORIC PROTEST

The Concerned Coalition to Protect Prisoner Rights held a press conference on Jan. 6, 2011, to discuss the physical assaults perpetrated on inmates by prison staff. The attacks took place in the wake of fact finding visits by the coalition to Macon State Prison and Smith State Prison, following last month’s prisoner-led work stoppage that spread to nine of Georgia’s prisons.

This piece includes interviews by Bruce Dixon of BlackAgendaReport.com with Edward DuBose, president of the Georgia Conference of NAACP Branches, Ajamu Baraka with the U.S. Human Rights Network, Chara Jackson with ACLU Georgia, Kenneth Glasgow of The Ordinary People Society, Charles Muhammad of the Nation of Islam and Hugh Esco of the Georgia Green Party.