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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 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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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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Uprising at Great Plains Correctional Facility, Oklahoma

ByperilousJuly 10, 2017

July 10, 2017: Armed with baseball bats and iron pipes, 400 prisoners take control of an entire building and two recreation yards for eight hours. Taking two guards hostage, they refuse to return to their cells. Guards use pepper spray and stun grenades. An unspecified

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Uprising at Otero County Detention Center, New Mexico

ByperilousApril 30, 2017

April 30, 2017: During a routine lockdown, at least nine prisoners at Otero County Jail refused to comply with orders. When guards came into their pod to subdue them they wrapped their fists with towels, got into "fighting stances", and attempted to attack the guards.

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Uprising at Arizona State Prison at Kingman, Arizona

ByperilousJuly 1, 2015

July 1 - July 4, 2015: Prisoners at the Arizona State Prison in Kingman, a private prison run by the Management & Training Corporation (MTC), riot for three days following an attack on guards. Following the riots, the governor of Arizona announces that the state would be

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Hunger Strike at Eloy Detention Center, Arizona

ByperilousJune 13, 2015

June 13, 2015: Over 200 detainees sat down in the recreation yard of the Eloy Detention Center and engaged in a hunger strike in response to guard abuse and lack of medical services.

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Work Stoppage and Hunger Strike at Karnes County Residential Center, Texas

ByperilousMarch 30, 2015

March 30, 2015 - (end date unknown): Around 78 detained immigrant mothers, most of whom were seeking asylum from Central American countries, signed a letter demanding their release and launched a work and hunger strike as well as a boycott of the facility.

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