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Hunger Strike at Yuba County Jail, California

ByperilousFebruary 9, 2019

February 9-16, 2019: Approximately 50 immigrant detainees in the ICE-operated detention facility launched a hunger strike in response to a variety of demands, including lack of medical care, adequate exercise time and educational programs.

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Hunger Strike at El Paso Processing Center, Texas

ByperilousJanuary 1, 2019

January 1, 2019 (exact start date unknown) - ongoing: As many as 30 immigrant detainees at the ICE-operated facility went on hunger strike over the course of a month, with an unknown number remaining on strike and at least nine of them being force-fed. They are joined by 4

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2018 National Prison Strike: Northwest Detention Center, Washington

ByperilousAugust 24, 2018

August 24-27, 2018: According to the group Northwest Detention Center Resistance, approximately 200 detainees participate in a hunger strike "in response to the call for a national prison strike in the U.S."

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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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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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Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center, Washington

ByperilousAugust 8, 2017

August 8, 2017: For at least the fourth time in a year, detainees at the NWDC go on hunger strike. This time 20 detainees refuse meals after being placed in the hole for protesting an assault by guards on an 18-year-old detainee.

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Hunger Strike at Central East Correctional Centre, Ontario

ByperilousOctober 16, 2016

October 16-29, 2016: Immigrant detainees re-launch their hunger strike (which had ended in July) in protest of their placement in maximum security prisons, indefinite detention of immigrants and a variety of other grievances. The outside group End Immigration Detention

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Hunger Strikes at Two Immigrant Detention Centers in Ontario

ByperilousJuly 11, 2016

July 11-29, 2016: A group of immigrant detainees in two facilities in Ontario participate in a coordinated hunger strike in protest of their placement in maximum security prisons, indefinite detention of immigrants and a variety of other grievances. The outside group End

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Hunger Strike and Protest at Immigrant Detention Center in Georgia

ByperilousApril 21, 2016

April 21 - December 21, 2016 (exact dates uncertain): Between (at least) April and December of 2016, dozens of detainees at the Stewart Detention Center launch rolling hunger strikes in protest of their confinement and treatment by ICE.

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