The site states: “Prisoners have outlined 10 national demands that include ‘immediate improvements’ to conditions and for inmates who are forced to work while incarcerated to be paid the ‘prevailing wage in their state.’ They’re also asking that the voting rights of ex-felons should be reinstated and an end to ‘over-sentencing and parole denials of Black and brown humans.’”

Amani Sawari, a spokesperson for the nationwide strike, reportedly told Vox, “The main leverage that an inmate has is their own body. Prisoners In Several Cities Plan To Strike For A Total Of 19 Days

It’s a new day as prisoners all over the United States have decided they will no longer be mistreated. "Seven comrades lost their lives during a senseless uprising that could have been avoided had the prison not been so overcrowded from the greed wrought by mass incarceration, and a lack of respect for human life that is embedded in our nation's penal ideology," the organizers write in their list of 10 demands. Tuesday marks the day that George Jackson, a well-known black activist, was killed in 1971 at San Quentin State Prison - and Sept. 9, the day that the strike is scheduled to end, is the day that prisoners took over Attica Correctional Facility in New York that same year, according to USA Today.
In the United States, inmates in 17 states go on strike to protest prison labor conditions.