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Bryant Arroyo has been held in Administrative Custody (AC) in the Restricted Housing Unit at State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Coal Township in Pennsylvania since Jan. 29. His only “crime” was insisting on the rights supposedly guaranteed by the First and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Under Pennsylvania Department…

A Workers World article featuring an incarcerated person’s struggles for disability rights is being denied entry into the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institute at Coal Township. William “Billy” Rinick, who wrote the letter to WW newspaper featured in the article entitled “Fighting for disability rights behind bars” (workers.org/2024/01/76247/) cannot read the…

By Billy Rinick and Joe Piette “The disproportionate incarceration of people with disabilities in the United States is a serious and growing problem. As the prison population ages, more inmates are reporting physical disabilities. The U.S. has also seen a rise in the number of people with mental illness and…