08/19/2026
🚨 HUNGER STRIKE AT LAWRENCE CORRECTIONAL CENTER — TAKE ACTION
On August 10, approximately 25 incarcerated people at Lawrence Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison in Sumner, Illinois, began a hunger strike to protest what they describe as inhumane conditions inside the facility.
Their demands are straightforward: The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) must follow its own rules and provide the basic conditions and services it is already required to provide.
Hunger strikers are calling for:
• Adequate meals
• Access to phone calls with family and loved ones
• Regular time outside of their cells
• Access to mental health care and support
• Enforcement of existing IDOC policies and protections
• An end to inhumane treatment and conditions
The situation has become so dire that incarcerated people are putting their own health and lives at risk simply to have their voices heard.
Death Row Ten member, torture survivor, and author Stanley Howard explains:
“They are putting themselves at risk to draw attention to horrific prison conditions and inhumane treatment and we must do all we can to support their efforts.”
We cannot allow people to suffer in silence.
We are calling on Governor JB Pritzker to intervene immediately and ensure that IDOC follows its own rules and protects the health, safety, and human dignity of the people incarcerated at Lawrence.
đź“Ł TAKE ACTION: Contact Governor Pritzker and demand immediate intervention.
➡️ tinyurl.com/LawrenceHungerStrike
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Their lives and dignity matter.
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