Updated at 11:35 p.m. ET
Inmates at prisons across the U.S. are expected to stage a weeks-long strike beginning Tuesday to demand better living conditions and prison reform.
Organizers say the demonstrations — including hunger strikes and a refusal to work — are in response to a riot in April at South Carolina’s Lee Correctional Institution in which seven inmates died.
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