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Vaughn 17 Hunger Strike at Sussex Correctional, Delaware

ByadminJuly 29, 2018

July 29-31, 2018: Fourteen of the eighteen prisoners charged in association with the February 2017 riot at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center stage a hunger strike in protest of their recreation time being cut. The prisoners, who had been transferred out of Vaughn

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Hunger Strike at Edmonton Remand Centre, Alberta

ByperilousJuly 23, 2018

July 23-30, 2018: More than 200 prisoners went on hunger strike in protest of a new policy restricting time outside of their cells. One week later, 14 prisoners continued refusing meals. The prisoners were protesting a new program called "tiered rotation" in which prisoners

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Hunger Strike at Bristol County House of Corrections, Massachusetts

ByperilousJuly 17, 2018

July 17-26, 2018: Approximately 60 immigrant detainees went on hunger strike on July 17 in protest of conditions in the part of the jail operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). When prisoners in the general population unit of the same jail heard of the hunger

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Hunger Strike and Encampment at Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma

ByperilousJuly 14, 2018

July 14-17, 2018: More than 40 detainees in pod A2 begin a hunger strike "to share the opinions of mistreatment that occur inside, and to ask for changes in ICE and GEO’s policies" the detainees say in a public statement. The hunger strike lasts four days. In early July,

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Hunger Strike at Leavenworth Detention Center, Kansas

ByperilousApril 30, 2018

April 30, 2018 - (end date unknown): According to the media outlet Liberation, "approximately two-thirds of the prisoners in the pre-trial detention facility participated in the first day of the hunger strike, leading the administration to extend a break time that day and to

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Hunger Strike at Wynne Unit, Huntsville, TX

ByperilousApril 11, 2018

April 11- April 20, 2018: Prisoners launch a hunger strike in protest of a lockdown at the prison. According to prison officials, 50 prisoners refuse meals at the height of the 10 day hunger strike.

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Hunger Strike at Polk Correctional Institution, North Carolina

ByperilousApril 1, 2018

April, 2018 (exact dates unknown): According to a letter from prisoner Willie James Dean-Bey to the San Francisco Bay View, prisoners in the H-Con housing unit went on hunger strike and released a list of demands, including access to food and hygiene items, newspapers,

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Hunger Strike at Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla

ByperilousApril 1, 2018

April 1-12, 2018: Prisoners begin a hunger strike on Easter Sunday that lasts at least 11 days and involves at least 1,315 prisoners--including prisoners in all six units of the prison's West Complex. All prisoners in the West Complex who are not "elderly or infirm"

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Hunger Strike at East Mississippi Correctional Facility

ByperilousMarch 1, 2018

March 1 - 5, 2018: Prisoners at a private prison run by the Management & Training Corp., launch a hunger strike in the lead-up to a trial in U.S. District court of a class-action lawsuit brought by the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of prisoners over

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Work Stoppage and Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center, Washington

ByperilousFebruary 7, 2018

February 7, 2018: Following a work stoppage by detainees employed in the kitchen on February 7, over 120 detainees launch a hunger strike on February 9 in protest of abuses by guards, food quality issues and other conditions. In retaliation for the hunger strike, guards beat

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