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Prisoner Hunger Strike

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From Change.org: Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison (California) are going on an indefinite hunger strike as of July 1, 2011 to protest the cruel and inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. The hunger strike was organized by prisoners in an unusual show of racial…

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Prisoner Suicide Risks

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In Sinkov v. Americor, the Second Circuit recently affirmed the lower court’s ruling in a prison suicide case, wherein it was held that defendant Americor Inc., a for-profit company providing “services” to Putnam County Jail, deliberately disregarded the known suicide risk to Sinkov, an inmate who hung himself in his…

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