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| Utah Hunger Strike: Utah State Prison Reaches Its Fourth Day |
| By hngn.com- Ma. Camille Arigo |
| Published: 08/04/2015 |
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Forty-two inmates of the Utah State Prison are on their fourth day of a hunger strike that started Friday morning by refusing to have breakfast. They began their protest against their living conditions that are too restrictive, Huffington Post reported. Brooke Adams, Utah Department of Corrections spokeswoman, said that these prisoners are all members of a gang in Uinta Facility, a maximum-security housing. The prisoners have several demands which include freeing the gang leaders situated in maximum-security facilities. American Civil Liberties Union of Utah declared that they were not associated with planning and organizing this protest but they express their support towards the prisoners' cause for this peaceful protest, according the ACLU Utah's legal director John Mejia, reported by Fox News. Letters sent to the organization stated their conditions and explained they don't have access to rehabilitation and insufficient meals. One letter from an unnamed prisoner says that, "We have had enough of these squalid living conditions and would like to be treated with respect and dignity, with the opportunity to better ourselves." Read More. |
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