Mark Wilson/Getty Images House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and other lawmakers said they hadn't heard any news about a nationwide prison strike set to end on Sunday. WASHINGTON ― Organizers of a nationwide protest at U.S. prisons have said they’re thrilled with the publicity they’ve received, but the news apparently hasn’t reached members of Congress. Lawmakers who oversee federal prison policy in the House of Representatives told HuffPost that they hadn’t heard about any protests or strikes, which had been planned from Aug. 21 through Sunday. “That’s the first I heard that.”Though prison officials have mostly denied that anything is actually happening, the protest against conditions inside U.S. prisons has generated dozens of news stories. “Right now America is experiencing probably one of the most extensive prison strikes in our nation’s history.”

Source: Huffington Post September 10, 2018 13:30 UTC