[Birds chirping] Juan Gonzalez: Inmates in at least 11 prisons across the state's troubled prison system have been on hunger strike for almost 2 weeks protesting what some mental health experts ...

Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit once held hundreds of inmates for more than a decade. Now, it’s nearly empty. The film tells the story of how the 2013 hunger strike helped ...

Morris is a 30-year survivor of solitary and of the hunger strike ... allotted visitation at Pelican Bay State Prison. Primary production on “The Strike” commenced just before the onset ...

Former Australian Prison Mate of Jailed Egyptian-British Dissident Goes on Hunger Strike By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt ...

Hanson, 35, was serving a sentence for robbery. The prison replaced Ely State Prison as the state’s highest security facility in September after 2,000 inmates were transferred between the two.

According to the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC), Emerich had been released from Ely State Prison in October after serving time for possession of a controlled substance, possession of a ...

After spending nearly a year in a Bolivian prison for a crime ... issue.” The hunger strike he launched April 15 follows 10 months of appeals to the U.S. State Department. His wife, Miriam ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would become a months-long hunger strike.

A hunger strike against solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison became a massive feat of unity. How California's Pelican Bay prison ignited a statewide hunger strike as a feat of unity by ...

Greste, who plans to stage a 21-day hunger strike, was in a neighbouring prison cell to Abd el-Fattah in 2013. Greste had been accused of helping a terrorist group while on assignment for ...