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The focus of the High Desert State Prison hunger strike was to demand cleaner facilities, better food and better access to the library. [2] Due to the two-month hunger strike, lawmakers agreed to hold public hearings on the conditions within California's maximum security prisons where this prolonged solitary confinement has taken place. [1]
In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would become a months-long hunger strike. The collective action was designed to ...
On July 1, 2011, a hunger strike began. Nearly every prisoner in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Units (over 1,000 inmates) was refusing food, and they were joined by general-population inmates. By the end of the first day, about 6,000 prisoners across California had reportedly participated in the hunger strike.
A prisoner at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, Calif., led a hunger strike to protest poor food quality, lacking medical care and retaliation from jail staff.
1970 Folsom Prison strike; 2010 Georgia prison strike; 2013 California prisoner hunger strike; 2016 U.S. prison strike; 2018 U.S. prison strike; W. Walpole prison strike
In “The Strike,” directors JoeBill Munoz and Lucas Guilkey chronicle a 2013 prison hunger strike that changed imprisonment policies across the U.S. The doc tells the story of America’s ...
2013 California prisoner hunger strike – Protest against indefinite solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison and for better conditions at High Desert State Prison. 2021 Youth hunger strike for democracy—Protest by 20 Arizona college students to urge the White House and the US Senate to pass the Freedom to Vote Act.
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