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Prisoners at Private Federal Prison in California Strike Over Food, Medical Care
Loaded on July 15, 2002
by Lonnie Burton
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2002, page 18
On November 26, 2001, more than 1,800 prisoners at the Taft Correctional Institution (TCI) refused to report to work in protest of shortcomings in the prison's food and medical care.
Filed under:
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Organizing,
Work Strikes,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Food.
Location:
California.
TCI, a privately run low-security federal prison operated by Wackenhut, remained on lock down since the first day of the ...
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