The attorney for the eight men said it seemed as if the prison was removing activist inmates from the general population.
Eight incarcerated men in Alabama embarked on a hunger strike to protest their placement in solitary confinement, allegedly without cause.
Attorney Donna Smalley, a representative for the group, told Newsweek it “makes no sense” that they would be moved for preventive measures because there wasn’t an infraction that prompted it. She said it seemed as if the prison was removing activist inmates from the general population. One of the men who committed to the hunger strike was Kotoni Tellis. His girlfriend, Louise Williams, told Newsweek that she was hurt when she learned that Tellis had been placed in solitary. Before he was removed from the general population, she said he hadn't done anything to another inmate or a corrections officer.
“Like I told Kotoni, whatever his decision is, I’m behind him,” Williams said. “He’s wrongfully in lockup. They pulled him from population and placed him in lockup. No one’s telling him why, and that’s the only thing Kotoni wants.”
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