Prisoner advocacy groups Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee have called for a 20-day prison labor strike to push for better conditions. The announcement comes two years after a national prison strike upended US correctional facilities. A series of demands have been presented, including better conditions, fair pay for prison labor, opening the possibility of parole to all prisoners, and increasing access to rehabilitation programs. Protesters are planning a rally outside of South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution at the end of this month.
See "After deadly SC prison riot, prisoners nationwide may go on a hunger, labor strike", EMILY BOHATCH, The State, August 13, 2018