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| Major prison strike spreads across US and Canada as inmates refuse food |
| 2018-08-24 |
| [Guardian] A prison strike has begun to take hold in custodial institutions across North America, with reports of sporadic protest action from California and Washington state to the eastern seaboard as far south as Florida and up to Nova Scotia in Canada. Details remain sketchy as information dribbles out through the porous walls of the country’s penitentiaries. Prison reform advocacy groups liaising with strike organisers said Wednesday that protests had been confirmed in three states, with further unconfirmed reports emerging from Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. The confirmed cases related to a hunger strike in Folsom state prison in California. A 26-year-old inmate called Heriberto Garcia managed to dispatch to the outside world a smartphone recording of himself refusing food. The video was then posted on Twitter. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 ok. Enjoy your hunger guys. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-08-24 13:10 |
| #11 I don't need new plates. Let them skip their trays. "let them eat cake". Almost a Keystone |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2018-08-24 13:07 |
| #10 Since their prison pants will be too loose, issue them all 4' lengths of rope to "hold their pants up" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-08-24 13:06 |
| #9 Knock a month off their sentence for every week they go without food. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-08-24 12:22 |
| #8 add a week once they quit |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-08-24 12:13 |
| #7 Yawn! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2018-08-24 11:40 |
| #6 Ask me if I care. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-08-24 11:10 |
| #5 Sounds like it's about time for a barbecue in the main yard. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-08-24 11:07 |
| #4 I'm ok with this. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2018-08-24 10:14 |
| #3 Thanks for saving non-criminal Americans and Canadians money. We'll consider it part of your restitution. |
| Posted by: Unomort Phoque5950 2018-08-24 08:57 |
| #2 Let them refuse food. I've never understood why the prisons have any moral responsibility to force-feed those that don't want to eat. Let them be monitored to be sure they aren't denied food, and let them have their protest. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2018-08-24 08:49 |
| #1 More conspiracy behind the scenes from the Left. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-08-24 07:58 |