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Atlanta Journal Constitution: Prisoners Discuss Planning, Details of Prison Protest

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Inmates discuss planning, details of ongoing prison protest By Rhonda Cook The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tuesday, December 14, 2010 As happens every morning at Smith State Prison, the cell doors were remotely unlocked just before dawn Tuesday. And, as has happened for the previous five days, that clicking noise was followed with a similar mechanical sound as inmates relocked their cell doors, the echoes ringing through the concrete and metal cell blocks at the close-security prison in Glennville, Ga. ?When they pop the doors we locked the doors back,? said Mike, a convicted armed robber who is one of the organizers of a protest that has spread to at least four state prisons. ?We are not coming out of our rooms,? said Mike, who gave an interview to ajc...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 15, 2010 (boomark / email).