He asked a lieutenant about getting electric fans for every cell, and the lieutenant responded, “There’s no chance in hell you’re getting them fans.” The PFU member said, “Every CO’s office, every lieutenants office, every captain’s office has a fan.” Photo courtesy of Behind the Walls Committee. Behind the Walls Committee and supporters at the Aug. One reported, “Ten or 15 of us went to the hospital,” and described laying on the floor facing the front of the cell to get fresh air because the heat and dust were aggravating his asthma. Two participants in the hunger strike who are members of the Prisoner’s Family Union spoke with Liberation News. Recent heat wave sends prisoners to hospital, sparks strikeĭuring the heat wave the week of August 9, prisoners in Max passed out from heat stroke because of the extreme temperatures and inadequate ventilation in the building, which is one of the oldest facilities in all of Rhode Island.
Some have records, some have loved ones behind bars, while others simply want to be in the struggle against the prison industrial complex. The committee is made up of individuals impacted by incarceration and their allies. The Behind the Walls Committee was formed over two decades ago by DARE - Direct Action for Rights and Equality. Inmates in the maximum security prison - known locally as “Max” - went on hunger strike on August 21, and asked contacts on the outside in the Behind the Walls Committee to organize a solidarity rally. The campus holds all seven of Rhode Island’s prisons, including the juvenile and women’s facilities. Travisono Intake Service Center on August 22 for a car rally in support of prisoners currently on hunger strike in the maximum security prison.
More than 30 cars circled Cranston, Rhode Island’s Department of Corrections’ Anthony P.
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