The Georgia News Network reported on Monday that four state-prisons were on lock-down after a "prisoners strike" was threatened last week by inmates at several prisons across the state.  According to Georgia Department of Corrections spokesperson Peggy Chapman, one of those prisons included Hays State Prison.

AM 1180 reported on Monday about an article in the New York Times where an unidentified inmate at Hays Prison contacted the paper by cell-phone – which is banned at the prison.  It is believed that the coordination of the proposed "prisoners strike" took place on banned cell phones between inmates at various prisons in Georgia.

Prisoners say that the strike is for improved living conditions and health care and they want to be paid for their work….something that is banned in many cases by state law.

The NAACP is urging the federal Bureau of Prisons to investigate the treatment of prisoners during the strike. Georgia NAACP chairman Edward DuBose says prisoners refused to leave their cells and perform their jobs.

Corrections spokeswoman Kristen Stancil said Monday there have been no major incidents at the four facilities that were locked down. She says they will remain that way until an internal investigation and a security review are completed.