Have you ever wondered what it was like to protest in prison? In this article someone was thinking about it. It is very hard to protest in prison, and the ones that try to protest know that they most likely will not win. Most prisoners will not protest for the risk of losing what little privileges they have. Such as: his jobs, his visits, his recreation time, his phone privileges, his right to buy tuna, ramen and stale bread at inflated prices in the commissary. On July 8 30,000 prisoners went on a hunger strike for better prison conditions. They went on this strike mainly for stopping solitary confinement for runaway punishment. Being locked in a room the size of a small bathroom for decades is said to be one of the cruelest punishments that there can be for a person. When you are in a confined room you lose all the connections from the world, you begin talking to yourself to give your mind something to do. The man that wrote this article used to count the steel that held his cell together, and when he felt like the walls were closing in on him he would count them again. It is a cruel punishment for any human to be locked away from the world,especially for trying to run away. That is why most prisoners are trying to protest against it, but it is getting harder because of the punishments they receive. If the prison officials do not understand why many inmates not affected by solitary confinement are on the strike then it is there fault that they are covered by their own censorship.
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