Desperation in Detention: The Number of Hunger Strikes Grow, as People Protest Their Incarceration Amid the Rapidly Spreading Coronavirus
April 07, 2020
April 07, 2020
WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Detention Watch Network issued the following news release:
News broke of a hunger strike at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island that began on Saturday with approximately 60 people participating, while across the country there are over 60 immigrant women who are on hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center in Washington state. Two weeks since the first person in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody tested positive for coron . . .
News broke of a hunger strike at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island that began on Saturday with approximately 60 people participating, while across the country there are over 60 immigrant women who are on hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center in Washington state. Two weeks since the first person in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody tested positive for coron . . .