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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

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Hunger Strike at Yuba County Jail, California

ByperilousJune 30, 2019

June 30-July 7, 2019: Thirty-six immigrant detainees at the Yuba County Jail launched a hunger strike in protest of various conditions at the facility including inadequate medical care, unhealthy food, a lack of access to showers, and cockroaches and rodents. By Wednesday,

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Hunger Strike at Robert Presley Detention Center, California

ByperilousJune 30, 2019

June 30-July 15, 2019: Four female prisoners housed at the Robert Presley Detention Center engaged in a 16-day hunger strike in protest of various conditions at the facility, including sexual harassment by guards, lack of mental health treatment and lack of adequate time out

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Food Strike at California State Prison, Corcoran

ByperilousJune 27, 2019

June 27, 2019-ongoing: At least half of the prisoners in the 3C unit of the California State Prison, Corcoran began a food strike on June 27 in protest of a change in prison policy that would take kitchen jobs away from general population and give them to prisoners in

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Protest at Minnesota Correctional Facility – Shakopee

ByperilousJune 22, 2019

June 22, 2019: According to the Industrial Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), 100 of the 130 prisoners in the Anthony Unit of the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee wore blue to protest treatment of LGBTQ prisoners at the facility. The Shakopee prison is a women's

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Hunger Strike at Limestone Correctional Facility, Alabama

ByperilousJune 14, 2019

June 14, 2019: Five men incarcerated at Limestone C.F. went on a hunger strike that lasted for close to two weeks.

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Disturbance at Alder Conservation Camp, California

ByperilousJune 3, 2019

June 3, 2019: Three prisoners and one staff member were injured after what the California Department of Corrections called a "riot" at Alder Conservation Camp. While details remain unclear, about 40 prisoners reportedly participated in the disturbance at the camp that houses

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Uprising at DeKalb County Jail, Georgia

ByperilousMay 15, 2019

May 15, 2019: During a protest in front of the jail, inmates inside smashed out windows in all three buildings of the facility. Many of the inmates then attempted to communicate through the smashed windows with protesters outside, shouting "help us" and "there is mold."