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Hunger strike begins at prisons
By wislawjournal.com
Published: 06/13/2016

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A handful of Wisconsin prison inmates have started a hunger strike in hopes of forcing an end to long-term solitary confinement.

The Industrial Workers of the World, a labor union working to draw attention to the strike, announced on Monday that at least seven inmates at Waupun Correctional Institution and Columbia Correctional Institution had pledged to stop eating on Friday.

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