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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 ]
The 2018 U.S. prison strike was a series of work stoppages and hunger strikes [1] in prisons across the United States from August 21 to September 9, 2018. [2] It was one of the largest prison strikes in US history. [3] [2] Striking workers demanded improved living conditions, an end to forced prison labor, and other prison reforms.
2013 California prisoner hunger strike – Protest against indefinite solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison and for better conditions at High Desert State Prison. 2021 Youth hunger strike for democracy—Protest by 20 Arizona college students to urge the White House and the US Senate to pass the Freedom to Vote Act.
In “The Strike,” directors JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey chronicle a 2013 prison hunger strike that changed imprisonment policies across the U.S. The doc tells the story of America’s ...
The Erie County Prison got a court order on Thursday that authorizes the staff to force feed an inmate and homicide defendant who has been on a hunger strikes since Jan. 28.
Father Denis Faul had suspected something similar at the time, [265] although this was denied by several hunger strikers and Brendan McFarlane, who was OC inside the prison during the hunger strike. [266] O'Rawe's account has been described by the historian Richard English as "explosive" [267] and by F. S. Ross as "highly contested". [268]
A statement published by the outlawed Al-Wefaq opposition group said the prisoners started the hunger strike over what it described as prison officials blocking inmates from worshipping and 23 ...
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.