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The focus of the High Desert State Prison hunger strike was to demand cleaner facilities, better food and better access to the library. [2] Due to the two-month hunger strike, lawmakers agreed to hold public hearings on the conditions within California's maximum security prisons where this prolonged solitary confinement has taken place. [1]
A prisoner at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, Calif., led a hunger strike to protest poor food quality, lacking medical care and retaliation from jail staff.
On July 1, 2011, a hunger strike began. Nearly every prisoner in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Units (over 1,000 inmates) was refusing food, and they were joined by general-population inmates. By the end of the first day, about 6,000 prisoners across California had reportedly participated in the hunger strike.
In 2013, 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike in an attempt to end indefinite solitary confinement and regain access to the general prison population. More from Variety
Individuals held in the Pelican Bay SHU organized a series of hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013, which have been described as the "backbone of the anti-solitary movement" in the United States. [34] The largest of the strikes, which began in July 2013 and ended 60 days later, encompassed over 30,000 participants across 33 California prisons.
1970 Folsom Prison strike; 2010 Georgia prison strike; 2013 California prisoner hunger strike; 2016 U.S. prison strike; 2018 U.S. prison strike; W. Walpole prison strike
An image of Idaho Maximum Security Institution’s C Block, where civil commitment patients are held. In May, at least 90 men housed in the prison participated in a hunger strike.
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