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| Hunger striking inmates 'starve for change' |
| By ajc.com - Edward Mitchell |
| Published: 07/17/2012 |
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About 80 supporters of hunger-striking prison inmates took their complaints directly to the Department of Corrections Monday, staging a protest outside the agency's Forysth headquarters and demanding a meeting with Commissioner Brian Owens. The demonstration came as the hunger strike by as many as 14 inmates at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison entered what protesters said was its 36th day. The Department of Corrections, however, disputes that claim and told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week that the strike ended on July 6. "I personally spoke to [inmates] Miguel Jackson and Kelvin Stevenson on Wednesday, July 11, and they are still on the hunger strike, along with other inmates," said attorney Mario Williams, who represents Jackson, an inmate at the prison in Jackson. Part of the confusion may have arisen because two of the original hunger strikers did stop on July 6, Williams said. But supporters insisted that the other inmates, led by Jackson, have been "starving for change" continuously since June 10. John Eric Berry, an activist and friend of inmate Dexter Shaw, also said the hunger strike was ongoing as of July 12. "I last spoke to Shaw on Thursday," Berry said. "He told me that he was still on the hunger strike, and that [the prison] had separated all the inmates so they couldn't easly communicate with each other." Delma Jackson, Jackson's wife and the leader of a protest at the State Capitol last Monday, said she received a letter from inmate Kelvin Stevenson dated July 12 in which he wrote that the hunger strike was ongoing, and that four new inmates had joined the strike. In an interview with the AJC, Jackson accused the prison system of attempting to conceal the hunger strike. "I think they're being deceptive," she said. "I think they're trying to get people thrown off track. They know it's in full force." Read More. |
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