TheAltWorld ‘Cops Aren’t Workers’: The Truth About the NY Prison Guards’ Walkout
- Rania Khalek
- Saturday 15 Mar 25
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Hiram Rivera, founding director of the Community Resource Hub for Safety & Accountability, joins the show to discuss the recent wildcat strike by New York prison guards.
The strike, which lasted three weeks, began just as murder charges were announced against six guards for the brutal beating death of handcuffed inmate Robert Brooks.
Rivera argues that the strike, which forced lockdowns and denied inmates basic rights, was a calculated ploy to justify decades of abuse by blaming poor conditions.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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