With prison rebellion at an all time high, it's important to expand political prisoner to include prison rebels sent to more repressive facilities for their political activities.
@rotatingskull good question- news reports and letters from inside.
here's a non-comprehensive, but representative timeline of resistance - http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/claybolto/prisoner-resistance-timeline
@clayton So “all time” begins in 1971. This completely ignores the Alcatraz prison riots of the 1940s. And the Colorado State Penitentiary Riot of 1929. And the 1963 riot at Pulau Senang.
@rotatingskull like I said, it's not comprehensive.
@clayton I think you are using words misleadingly in an attempt to generate urgency and to make it sound like you know things you don’t actually know.
* 1993 Lucasville rebellion leader Siddique Hasan is on death row for false murder charges
* 2016 prison strike organizer Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun was tortured then thrown in solitary confinement AND IS STILL THERE
* 2018 prison journalist (not even organizer) Rashid Johnson is in solitary & battling "attempt to incite riot" charges for writing about prison conditions.
These are just a few of the many examples of prison rebels I consider political prisoners.
@rotatingskull as for urgency,
7 people died, 17 were injured in the Lee Correctional riot, the deadliest event in the last 25 years.
Yes, I would say the need to take down the prison industrial complex is urgent.
@clayton Prison rebelion is at an all time high? How do you measure this?