Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Hunger Strike in Colorado

Eight to nine inmates held at a US supermax prison in Colorado are on hunger strike and being forcibly fed

The striking prisoners are serving sentences at the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, the highest-security prison run by the federal government on US soil. At ADX, more than 400 inmates spend twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day locked alone in concrete “boxcar” cells without access to a window. A former warden once called the facility“a cleaner version of hell.”


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