Rikers Island inmates plot hunger strike ahead of Biden's NYC visit
“All gangsters, gentlemen and stand up individuals, the courts and DOC are violating us every day, and our families are suffering for it as well,” reads the letter, which sources said was distributed in food carts to inmates at Rikers’ Robert N. Davoren Complex.
The screed, whose author is not known, accuses officials with the city Department of Correction of “messing with our mail, visits, recreation, medical, law library, commissary, living conditions” and also complains of mold in the lockup.The letter calls on all inmates to “do our part” to protest poor conditions at the lockup.The letter vows to outdothis month, when about 200 inmates refused meals — part of the recent turmoil at the beleaguered city-run jail complex.
According to prison officials, the hunger strike was suggested after President Biden announced his trip to New York later this week.Inmate kitchen workers helped circulate the message, which indicated that the strike would start January 29, 2022, according to sources. It’s unclear if it ever began.“Through hunger strike, we can get some attention, and hopefully some of us can go home, ’cause living here ain’t it! So respectfully because it’s gonna justify their f—kery.
“So, the inmate workers put the note in the food carts and passed [it] around to each house, spreading the word,” the source said. “And then we started seeing them laying around. We are trying to figure out who [wrote it].”
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