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Force-Feeding Is Cruel, Painful, and Degrading—and American Prisons Won’t Stop

Loaded on June 6, 2019 by Aviva Stahl

Filed under: Hunger Strikes, Food, Excessive Force, Mental Health, First Amendment, First Amendment, rights. Locations: Colorado, United States of America.

In a Colorado supermax facility, hunger-striking inmates have been force-fed and barred from sharing their ordeal with the outside world. A prisoner breaks his silence for the first time.
By Aviva Stahl, The Nation, June 4, 2019

It was November 11, 2015, and Mohammad Salameh hadn’t eaten in ...

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