July 2019 - Perilous

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Hunger Strike at Scotland Correctional Institution, North Carolina

ByperilousJuly 31, 2019

July 31, 2019-end date unknown: According to the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), an unknown number of prisoners participated in a hunger strike in protest of arbitrary denial of recreation time and lack of access to notaries for legal work.

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Hunger Strike and Protest at Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, Louisiana

ByperilousJuly 27, 2019

July 27 - August 3, 2019: Guards deployed pepper spray after more than 100 immigrant detainees held a demonstration in the prison yard at Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, a privately run ICE detention Facility owned by GEO Group. The event comes just a day after ICE

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Hunger Strike and Protest at Bossier Medium Security Facility, Louisiana

ByperilousJuly 26, 2019

July 26 - August 2, 2019: Approximately 30 immigrant detainees were pepper-sprayed following a protest in the cafeteria of the Bossier Medium Security Facility. The protest occurred in the midst of a hunger strike at the facility that began Friday, July 26.

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Attack on Guards at Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility

ByperilousJuly 17, 2019

July 17, 2019: According to prison authorities, five prisoners attacked two guards during a nurse visit at Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility. The attack continued until another guard fired “less lethal shotgun and pepper ball grenades.”

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Hunger Strike at River Correctional Facility, Louisiana

ByperilousJuly 9, 2019

July 9, 2019-end date unknown: According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Spokesperson Bryan Cox, seven immigrant detainees at the River Correctional Facility were engaged in a hunger strike as of July 11, 2019. The hunger strike began on July 9, 2019.

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Hunger Strike at Adams County Correctional Center, Mississippi

ByperilousJuly 9, 2019

July 9-11, 2019: Several detainees at the Adams County Correctional Center participated in a hunger strike in protest of conditions at the facility. According to the Clarion Ledger, the detainee at the facility who began the hunger strike was an electrician working and

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Hunger Strike at Otero County Processing Center, New Mexico

ByperilousJuly 9, 2019

July 9, 2019-ongoing: Five detainees started a hunger strike to protest their detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. All of those participating are from Cuba. As of July 16, all of the men had not eaten a meal and some were refusing water.

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Hunger Strike at El Paso ICE Processing Center, Texas

ByperilousJuly 8, 2019

July 8, 2019: At least four prisoners at ICE Facility in Texas went on hunger strike seeking bonds to be free while appealing deportation orders. They were stuck in detention in as long as fifteen months.

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Hunger Strike at SCI-Fayette, Pennsylvania

ByperilousJuly 4, 2019

July 4, 2019-end date unknown: According to the Pennsylvania-based prisoner rights advocacy group the Human Rights Coalition, 16 prisoners went on hunger strike to protest a variety of conditions including "repeated physical abuse from guards, sexual harassment, extensive