The movement returned inside in the 2010s: Georgia's 2010 work stoppage, the Pelican Bay hunger strikes of 2011–13 — 30,000 refusing food at their peak, ending California's indefinite SHU terms — and the national prison strikes of 2016 and 2018, called by the Free Alabama Movement and Jailhouse Lawyers Speak against "prison slavery," the largest in American history. The organizers paid the traditional price: Alabama's Kinetik Justice (Robert Earl Council) spent years in solitary for organizing; Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun (Melvin Ray) was buried in segregation without disciplinary charges; strike spokespeople nationwide were transferred, gassed, and isolated.

Their cases — with Ohio's death-row Lucasville organizers like Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan, and writers punished for journalism from prison — form the newest generation in this database: prisoners made political prisoners by organizing against the prison itself, the movement's oldest and most exact definition.