Inmates in at least seven California prisons continued a month-long hunger strike in protest of conditions in solitary confinement, an action state prison officials call a ploy to relax controls on gang activity.
The state corrections department Wednesday said 346 inmates were on hunger strike, 200 of them refusing meals since July 8. They are protesting the state's placement of 4,500 inmates in isolation, some of them held there for decades.
The court-appointed agency that runs prison healthcare programs said 24 inmates required medical attention, including one at Calipatria State Prison at the far southern edge of the state who was taken...
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The state corrections department Wednesday said 346 inmates were on hunger strike, 200 of them refusing meals since July 8. They are protesting the state's placement of 4,500 inmates in isolation, some of them held there for decades.
The court-appointed agency that runs prison healthcare programs said 24 inmates required medical attention, including one at Calipatria State Prison at the far southern edge of the state who was taken...
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