Thousands of California Inmates Show Solidarity With Prison Hunger Strike [Video]
Submitted on July 11, 2011
By Bryan Gerhart - Monday, July 11, 2011
What began as a hunger strike among inmates of the isolation wing of California’s Pelican Bay prison has turned into a statewide display of solidarity. A number of prisoners in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, California’s highest-security complex, refused their state-provided morning meal on Friday to protest the inhumane conditions of their confinement.
