Calif. Inmates End Hunger Strike After 2 Months

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. September 5, 2013 (AP)
By DON THOMPSON Associated Press

California inmates have ended a nearly two-month hunger strike to protest the prison system's isolation policies, prison officials said Thursday.

All inmates began accepting prison-issued meals, Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard said.

More than 30,000 inmates had been refusing meals when the strike began in early July. By this week the number had dwindled to 100 strikers, including 40 who had been on strike continuously since July 8.

The strike ended after two Democratic state legislators promised to hold hearings this fall on inmates' complaints that gang leaders are often held for decades in isolation units.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/calif-inmates-end-hunger-strike-months-20165635

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Good. Some daylight needs to be shined on California's prison practices.

Prisoners can organize for effective action. Why can't we?

[gopiscrap]

2. Wow good for them May God's grace give them strength!