U.S. prisoners lead more than 100 strikes over dangerous conditions during pandemic

Washington, November 17 (RHC)-- A new report has found U.S. prisoners organized over 100 strikes between March and June in response to dangerous conditions inside jails and prisons amid the pandemic. 

"Perilous" -- a digital research and media group that issued the report -- said prisoners rose up across 39 states, with most protests happening inside immigrant prisons.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, over 250,000 people in jails and prisons have tested positive for the coronavirus, and over 1,400 prisoners and staffers have died.  Perilous referred to the uprisings as “clearly one of the most massive waves of prisoner resistance in the past decade.”

In other prison-related news, in El Paso, Texas, prisoners are being paid just $2 an hour to move the bodies of people who have died of COVID-19 to mobile morgues, as the number of cases and deaths has completely overwhelmed local hospitals.