excellent story & good information! 20,000 people is a serious strike. That would be enough people to force the hand of any normal employer to listen to their demands. But the sad fact is this is barely one and a half percent of the total prison population.

The fact that their slaves go on strikes especially hunger strikes makes prison executives laugh. The fact is these are economic slaves, almost matrix style, where everything from clothes, food, and medicine, to guns, razors, and toilet paper are contracted by third party companies. These contracts make those who are awarded them by private correction companies BILLIONS.

Whenever there are hunger strikes, riots, or other prison calamities that use or conserve resources that can be billed to the government at the same rate, their stocks go up...
Look for yourself, this one is up 1% today and while the companies that rely on this labor are starting to loose.

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/geo
"private correction corp."
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/lb
"private corrective labor corp."