In late 2025, incarcerated organizer Kenneth “Swift Justice” Traywick entered a hunger strike inside Bullock Correctional Facility, igniting statewide concern over what he described as ongoing abuse, retaliation, and unconstitutional treatment by Alabama prison officials. For two weeks, Traywick refused food to protest the conditions at Bullock, calling for a transfer, an end to targeted harassment, and a face-to-face meeting with Commissioner John Hamm.

According to a series of press releases from Unheard Voices of the Concrete Jungle (UVOTCJ), the Alabama Department of Corrections responded not with transparency, but with punitive isolation. They placed Traywick in restrictive housing, confiscated his legal materials, rem ...