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| Inmates end hunger strike |
| By London Free Press |
| Published: 07/26/2004 |
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Inmates have ended a brief hunger strike at a London jail that started after a prisoner bit on a sharp object hidden in his food. The victim was injured by the object at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre on Monday, prompting a group of other prisoners to stop eating until inmates working in the kitchen were replaced -- a request that has been met, a jail employee said yesterday. The object was reportedly a razor blade, said the employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Whatever cutting type of thing it was was in the institution. That's the scary part." Lou Ann Lucier, the detention centre's deputy superintendent, would say only the "issue has been dealt with." That's welcome news to Karen Evans, who said her son was among the inmates staging the hunger strike. Evans -- told of the protest by her son during a phone call Monday -- breathed easier after he sent a message to her yesterday saying he was eating again. |
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