Everyone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail
The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.
The uprising at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has become a focal point for broader resistance to ICE.
After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks.
In 2011, more than 6,600 people imprisoned in California stopped eating for 19 days to protest extreme isolation inside the state’s prisons. The protests lead to state hearings and a lawsuit.
Ten years ago this month, nearly 29,000 people in California prisons staged a hunger strike to protest solitary confinement.
About 20 people in the prison’s Badger section have been on hunger strike for the past few days, three people incarcerated there say.
Conditions at the Newark jail where the strike is taking place were dire even before the threat of COVID-19.
Prisoners are striking to end death by incarceration, prison slavery and poor living conditions.
Alameda and Santa Clara County jail detainees round out the first week of a hunger strike for better conditions.