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March 26, 2014

Immigrant Detainees Resume Hunger Strike in Washington State 
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The Alabama protest comes as dozens of detainees at an immigration jail
in Washington state have resumed a hunger strike. The hunger strikers
began refusing meals earlier this month in a call for improved
conditions at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, owned by the GEO
Group. An attorney for the detainees says around 70 have resumed fasting
after the jail's managers failed to implement pledged reforms.

 

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