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| Prison Visitation Ban May Have Been Unfair |
| By courthousenews.com-Iulia Flip |
| Published: 01/22/2014 |
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MACON, Ga. (CN) - Public criticism may have led prison officials to suspend the visitation privileges of a woman married to a Georgia inmate, a federal judge ruled. Miguel Jackson is serving time in a maximum-security unit of the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. Based in Jackson, 46 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta, the prison houses adult male felons, including maximum-security and death-row inmates. Shortly after he was moved to the prison's special management unit in June 2012, Jackson went on a hunger strike, joined by other inmates who were upset about their assignment to the same unit. Prison officials said staff monitored the striking inmates daily, as required by Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) rules, and tried to persuade them to accept meals. As more inmates joined the strike and refused to submit to medical tests, Jackson's wife Delma spoke to the media and organized several public protests to raise awareness about prison conditions. Prison warden Carl Humphrey suspended visitation privileges for all inmates participating in the strike two weeks into Jackson's fast. Though Humphrey invoked safety and security reasons for his decision, Delma Jackson attributed it to her public criticism of the prison officials. Humphrey restored Jackson's visitation privileges in early July, believing that the hunger strike was over. After Delma Jackson held a second rally at the state Capitol, however, eight inmates, including her husband, again refused meals. Read More. |
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