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Illinois Supermax Hunger Strike

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2000 by Dan Pens published in Prison Legal News December, 2000, page 28
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Organizing, Hunger Strikes, Food, Exercise, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Mail Regulations, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness). Location: Illinois.
By Dan Pens

Displaying remarkable solidarity while encaged under unimaginably oppressive conditions, more than half of the 273 prisoners at the Tamms Supermax prison in downstate Illinois began a hunger strike by refusing their breakfast on May 1,2000. Prison officials said 173 prisoners joined the action. Alan Milks, a lawyer ...

 

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