Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center, Washington

Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center, Washington

Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma, Washington
August 8, 2017

For at least the fourth time in a year, detainees at the NWDC go on hunger strike. Twenty detainees refuse meals after being placed in the hole for protesting an assault by guards on an 18-year-old detainee.

Citations:

Fourth Hunger Strike Started in the Northwest Detention Center- Facility in ‘Modified Lock Down’ Since Saturday“, NWDCresistance.org, August 9, 2017.