Lisette’s Brother Is in Prison • Big Secret, Don’t Tell Nobody…
susie day / CounterPunch+ — Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter media exposés of their brutalities—like the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility last December—staged a wildcat strike. The strike left thousands of prisoners locked for weeks inside cold cells, cut off from food, showers, medicine, visits. The strike is over now; the guards have basically won. But, during the strike, at least nine incarcerated people died of beatings or medical neglect. Phillip Nieves was one of those incarcerated who lived through it. Phillip's sister, Lisette Nieves, lived through it as well.