Immigrant Detainees Continue Staging Hunger Strikes to Protest Deplorable Confinement
source: http://www.alternet.org/rights/141840/immigrant_detainees_staging_hunger_strikes_to_protest_...
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When more than 60 prisoners at the South Louisiana Correctional Center in Basile, LA, began a hunger strike last week, in protest of the facility's deplorable conditions, guards at the immigrant detention center placed at least six of them in solitary confinement for 60 days. The planned 72-hour strike was the fifth of its kind in one month at the facility, whose parent company, LCS Corrections Services, holds a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to manage the detention center.
These detention centers are run by private contractors. Making billions of dollars at our expense
These detention centers are run by private contractors. Making billions of dollars at our expense
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