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Second Hunger Strike Met With Pepper Spray at Washington GEO Group Lockup Where ICE Detainees Allege Widespread Sexual Abuse
Loaded on March 1, 2023
by Keith Sanders
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2023, page 52
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Hunger Strikes,
Pepper Spray/Tear Gas.
Location:
Washington.
by Keith Sanders
On February 4, 2023, a crowd of 50 people gathered outside the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington. They were there to support a hunger strike staged by some 100 detainees held inside by private prison giant GEO Group under contract for federal Immigration and Customs ...
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