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2016 National Prison Strike

ByperilousSeptember 9, 2016

September 9, 2016: The strike called for and supported by multiple prisoner and support organizations kicks off on the 45th anniversary of the Attica Uprising. Dozens of facilities experience some kind of disturbance or lockdown. Accurate numbers are difficult to gather

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Michigan Food Strike Spreads to Cotton Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousApril 12, 2016

April 12, 2016: The food strike started on 3/20 spreads to a third facility in Michigan with at least 660 prisoners refusing meals at Cotton, as reported by the prison administration.

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Michigan Food Strike Spreads to Chippewa Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousMarch 26, 2016

March 26, 2016: The food strike started on 3/20 spreads to a second facility with at least 800 prisoners refusing meals at Chippewa, as reported by the prison administration.

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Michigan Food Strike Begins at Kinross Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousMarch 20, 2016

March 20-21, 2016: Prisoners organize a food strike to protest poor food quality by the privatized food contractor Trinity Services Group just eight months after Trinity takes over the role from Aramark Correctional Services. According to a prisoner at Kinross who

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Food Strike at Regina Provincial Correctional Centre, Saskatchewan

ByperilousJanuary 7, 2016

January 7, 2016: Between 100 and 150 prisoners at Regina Provincial Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan refused meals for 24 hours to protest the quality of food they were being served by a private company called Compass Group of Canada.

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Uprising at Willacy County Correctional Center, Texas

ByperilousFebruary 20, 2015

February 20, 2015: Nearly 2,000 inmates participated in an uprising at a private prison run by Management and Training Corporation. The facility, which lies approximately 40 miles from the US-Mexico border was used primarily to house immigrants due for deportation.

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Food Strike at SCI Coal Township, Pennsylvania

ByperilousJune 16, 2014

June 16, 2014: Approximately 1,300 prisoners participated in a food strike at SCI Coal Township in Central Pennsylvania in protest of a variety of conditions at the prison, including a recent cut back in food portions.

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Food Strike at Federal Correctional Institution, Fairton, New Jersey

ByperilousDecember 17, 2012

January 4th, 2013: Prisoners participated in a food strike in response to a new policy which would punish an entire block or unit of prisoners for not admitting to carrying "contraband."

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Food Strike at California Men’s Colony

ByperilousJanuary 24, 2011

January 24 - 26, 2011: One thousand prisoners refuse meals in a hunger strike in protest of austerity measures at the prison, including cuts to programming and routine lockdowns associated with under-staffing.

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