Elaine Brown, longtime human rights activist and former head of the Black Panther Party in the 1970s is a former Georgia resident, and has a son imprisoned in that state. Brown has spent much of the last dozen years working with Georgia inmates, their families, and others concerned about the plight of prisoners and the role the institutions of prisons and mass incarceration play in our society. On Thursday December 9 thousands of inmates in at least four GA prisons refused their work assignments and chose to stay in their cells, beginning a peaceful and nonviolent strike for better living conditions, food and medical care, recreational and educational opportunties behind the walls. Amy Goodman interviews Elaine Brown Less