By Alex Rudolph
Prisoners are calling home complaining
that the water at SCI Mahanoy is brown and has a foul odor. They cannot
drink it. Prison Radio is monitoring the situation and advocating that everyone at the
prison have access to clean bottled water.
This follows our reports a week ago
about the purported water main break at SCI Frackville. Frackville SCI is
across Highway 81 and down the road from SCI Mahanoy; both
are located in Frackville, PA.
The prison has also been experiencing water
contamination. The DOC memo, from August 22, 2016, regarding the contamination is available here.
Listen to on-the-ground
reporting by Prison Radio's Bryant Arroyo in his essay "Frackville's Flint."
This past weekend Prison Radio correspondent Bryant Arroyo, a jailhouse environmentalist, gave a keynote address to the Bending the Bars Conference in Columbus, Ohio. It details his ground breaking campaign to stop a coal gasification plant within a few hundred yards of SCI Mahanoy. Listen here.
"Frackville" the
town name does not refer to fracking (a water-poisoning extractive gas
industry). The town was named for Daniel Frack in 1876, while the guy who wanted
the gas plant was a powerful plant operator and major landowner in the Mahanoy
Susquehanna County named John W. Rich, Jr. Just a coincidence that the
name and awful practice line up all these years later.
Source: Prison Radio
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