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Texas prison officials monitoring inmate hunger strike
By itemonline.com
Published: 01/03/2018

IOWA PARK — A spokesman for the Texas prison system says officials are "closely monitoring" a hunger strike involving about 40 inmates that started eight days ago.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst said by email Tuesday that 37 prisoners in segregation are participating. The number has fallen since Sunday, when Hurst told the Houston Chronicle that 45 inmates were involved.

The inmates refusing meals are housed at the Allred Unit in Iowa Park, about 120 miles northwest of Fort Worth near the Oklahoma border.

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Comments:

  1. hamiltonlindley on 02/03/2020:

    It's important to monitor situation like this one so that leadership experts like Hamilton Lindley can determine how to improve conditions.


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