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In Illinois Prison, A Hunger Strike Against ‘Inhumanity’

February 9, 2014 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org , ,
About a dozen people who are incarcerated at the the state-run Menard Correctional Center are taking part in the hunger strike, which is stretching into its fourth week, amid reports of prison retaliation against the peaceful protest. This includes the beating of hunger striker Armando Velasquez, according to Staughton and Alice Lynd, who have been actively supporting the hunger strike since they were contacted by the incarcerated men. "The conditions here are inhumane & repressive," wrote an anonymous incarcerated person quoted in Solitary Watch, in a letter announcing the hunger strike before its January 15th start date. "So much that we are forced to make a stand as men in righteous indignation."
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