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| California Inmates Stage Hunger Strike |
| By online.wsj.com - Tamara Audi |
| Published: 10/17/2012 |
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A nearly week-old hunger strike at a central California prison is highlighting troubles in the U.S.'s largest state-prison system as it struggles to ease overcrowding and implement changes. As of Tuesday, 135 inmates at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi were refusing to eat. The hunger strike started last Wednesday, and as many as 161 inmates have participated. The inmates' complaints include objections to prison food as well as planned overhauls of higher-security prison units, officials said. Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, defended the so-called security-housing units, saying they were necessary to combat "pervasive gang activity" in the prisons, which now hold about 120,000 adults. "To combat gang activity you have to interrupt gang communication," she said. "You have to totally restrict their ability to recruit other inmates to gangs." Read More. |
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