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On Monday, prisoners across Florida launched “Operation Push” a month-long work stoppage intended to be a peaceful protest to conditions at Florida prisons.

Among their issues is the fact that Florida is one of only five states which don’t pay their inmates for prison labor. Florida uses it’s prisoners, essentially, as slaves. Having them clean roads and clear storm debris after the recent hurricanes. If the state can incarcerate more people and use them for free labor, where’s the incentive to taper mass incarceration or rehabilitate them?

Speaking of mass incarceration; Florida has the third-largest prison population in the US, with 97,000 inmates, according to DOC data.

Another issue is the prices inmates need to pay for necessities purchased at the canteen. With no wages, they are dependent on outside family to support them. The Florida Department of Corrections has been price gouging its inmates for decades. Prisoners say that they have to pay $17 for a case of soup that would cost $4 on the outside.

The Florida DOC and Department of Juvenile Justice was also recently featured in a Miami-Herald series called “fight club” which exposed the atrocities taking place in Florida institutions, where juvenile inmates are forced to fight each other for the guard’s amusement and where sexual abuse of inmates by corrections officers is rampant.

If the high number of recent deaths in Florida facilities wasn’t enough for Florida politicians to take notice. Hopefully this protest will hit them in the pocketbooks and then they will care!

 

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