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| Judge Grants Permission for Prison to Force-feed Inmate |
| By Chicago Tribune |
| Published: 02/11/2002 |
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Pontiac Correctional Center, Ill., officials have won permission to force-feed a prisoner who has refused to eat for three weeks, if his hunger strike threatens his life. Livingston County Circuit Judge Harold Frobish granted a temporary injunction recently, allowing the prison to use blood tests to monitor the condition of Robert Weeks, 39. The order also allows the staff to feed Weeks intravenously or through a feeding tube if his condition becomes critical. Weeks, whose weight has dropped from 194 to 166 pounds, said he quit eating because he is depressed, a condition he claims worsened after his daughter died in December. Frobish told Weeks several hearings were still ahead before he makes a final ruling. A status hearing on the hunger-strike injunction is scheduled for Feb. 5. Weeks is serving a 3-year sentence for aggravated battery to a police officer in Cook County.He is the third Pontiac inmate to go on an extended hunger strike in recent months. One inmate received the transfer he wanted to another prison. Another, Eldon Millard, 60, began his hunger strike in July, and is being force-fed. |
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