[1] The start and end dates of the strike were chosen to coincide with the shooting of George Jackson during an escape attempt on August 21, 1971 and with the Attica Prison riot on September 9, 1971.
[1] Strike participants and leaders were punished with solitary confinement, loss of communication privileges, and prison transfers.
[12] On August 19, prisoners in the Burnside jail in Nova Scotia, Canada held a protest and released a statement in support of the strike and with their own list of demands.
[16] At least 200 detained immigrants at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington engaged in a hunger strike and/or work stoppage, releasing a statement stating that they were "acting with solidarity for all those people who are being detained wrongfully," and standing against separation of families.
[18] Two North Carolina prisons joined the national strike with protesting inmates bringing banners made out of sheets into the yard at Hyde Correctional and five people refused work at Correction Enterprises laundry facility outside Asheville between August 19th and 21st.