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ICE Detainees Hunger Strike at the Elizabeth Detention Center, NJ in Response to COVID-19

ByperilousMarch 20, 2020

March 20, 2020: At least forty prisoners went on hunger strike at Elizabeth Detention Center in response to poor sanitary conditions after medical staffer tested positive for COVID-19.

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ICE Detainees in Alabama Protest, Hunger Strike and Threaten Suicide Amidst COVID Outbreak

ByperilousMarch 20, 2020

March 20, 2020: 2 Detainees at the Etowah County Detention Center in Alabama threaten suicide in protest as 3 new detainees are brought to the facility who may have been exposed to COVID-19.

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ICE Detainees Hunger Strike in Hudson County, NJ in response to COVID-19

ByperilousMarch 18, 2020

March 18, 2020: Immigrant prisoners at Hudson County Corrections and Rehabilitation Center in New Jersey began a hunger strike in response to their elevated risk of contracting COVID-19.

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ICE Detainees Hunger Strike in Essex County, New Jersey in Response to COVID-19

ByperilousMarch 17, 2020

March 17, 2020 - Ongoing: A group of detainees at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark, New Jersey have organized a hunger strike demanding their immediate release as COVID-19 pandemic spreads throughout New Jersey and the world.

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Asylum Seekers from Cameroon Launch Hunger Strike in ICE Detention

ByperilousMarch 3, 2020

March 3, 2020 - Ongoing: Forty-three asylum seekers facing indefinite detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are on day ten of a hunger strike in protest of their conditions of confinement.

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Sit-Down Strike at T. Don Hutto ICE Facility, Texas

ByperilousFebruary 24, 2020

February 24, 2020: Approximately 80 female detainees at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas engaged in a sit-down strike in protest of indefinite detention, inadequate medical care and other issues.

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Hunger Strike at El Paso Processing Center, Texas

ByperilousDecember 13, 2019

October, 2019 - ongoing: Three prisoners at the ICE-operated El Paso Processing Center began hunger strikes within the previous two months demanding their freedom and protesting denial of due process. ICE agents are force-feeding them using tubes forced in the nose and down

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Detained Asylum Seekers Stage Protest at Winn Correctional Center, Louisiana

ByperilousDecember 3, 2019

December 3rd, 2019: Detainees who are currently seeking asylum in Winn Correctional Center (WCC) refused to move back to their cells in a protest over their prolonged detention, some having spent over 8 months awaiting parole.

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Hunger Strike at LaSalle Detention Facility, Louisiana

ByperilousOctober 31, 2019

October 31 - Ongoing: At least five asylum seekers from India have been force-fed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after refusing to eat for almost two months, says the immigrant-advocate group Freedom for Immigrants.

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Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center, Washington

ByperilousOctober 18, 2019

October 18, 2019: More than two hundred detainees began a hunger strike on Friday at the Northwest Detention Center, a privately-run immigrant detention center, according to the immigrant advocate group La Resistencia.

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