In this pandemic battle most governments boast of their varying degrees of success in the midst of abject failure. However practically none of them are doing anything to relieve the conditions of prisoners, locked up in over crowded, unhygienic conditions, with poor to non-existent health care, despite the fact that they are all aware that the virus is inside most of these hell-holes and the conditions are ideal for it to spread. Imagine what it must be like to be confined to this obvious danger and being unable to do anything to protect yourself.
Naturally across the world those unfortunate enough to be enmeshed in these institutions of state repression are doing the only thing open to them, rioting in protest at this callous and barbaric treatment. Prisoners have families, they are human beings, but in this type of society all that is denied.
This action by prisoners to draw attention to their avoidable situation is happening across the world, this report from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The following from The Plague And The Fire:
In the prison of Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires, an uprising broke out after a prison guard was infected with coronavirus. The protest spread to various pavilions and inmates took control of at least two floors of the building, demanding transfers and health checks for fear of mass contagion. The prisoners then climbed onto the roof of the section from which they unrolled various banners “We don’t want to die in prison” “Genocide Judges. Silence is not my language.” They then started throwing stones and various objects. Mattresses were set on fire. Eleven guards were apparently injured.
Two days ago, another violent uprising took place in Florencio Varela prison, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. To cause it, the fake audio message from a fake doctor reporting the presence of the coronavirus in the prison.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-argentina-prison/we-refuse-to-die-in-jail-argentine-inmates-set-fire-to-prison-in-coronavirus-protest-idUSKCN226310
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/apr/21/richard-garside-uk-lagging-behind-europe-coronavirus-prisons
