WASHINGTON: Prisoners throughout the United States went on strike Friday, answering social media calls to protest prison living conditions in a mobilization whose magnitude remains difficult to assess.

Two Florida prisons -- Gulf Correctional and Mayo Correctional -- were placed on lockdown following "disturbances," according to the Miami Herald newspaper.

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