Hunger Strike

Attorney Michael Ratner on the 30,000 California prisoners on hunger-strike and their solidarity with prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the occupied territories of Palestine.

‘Sadly, this institution wants to break as many ties and bonds to family and community as it can,’ writes Danny Troxell.

Suffering from severe medical problems, 71-year-old George Ruiz is challenging long-term solitary confinement.

Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison's Security Housing Unit (SHU) are isolated for at least twenty-two and a half hours a day in cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are …

Todd Ashker describes how solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison deprived him of any relationship with his mother.

Working with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Truthout offers a series of profiles of prisoners on hunger strike at Pelican Bay.

A prisoner on hunger strike in California shares his story of years spent in isolation.

In interview with former president of Veterans for Peace, Elliott Adams on his hunger strike in solidarity with prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.

An end to indefinite detention seems never to have been part of the Obama administration's plan.

An emerging humanitarian crisis - a mass hunger strike - is drawing only scant attention, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.