(California) Prisoners resume hunger strike

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(09-28) 17:31 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Inmates in Central and Southern California have resumed a hunger strike to protest what they say are degrading conditions in isolation cells and unfair gang-security measures at state prisons.

The hunger strike began Monday and has apparently spread to "thousands of inmates in several correctional facilities," said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Representatives of the inmates said as many as 6,000 prisoners are striking at state prisons in Tehachapi (Kern County), and Calpatria and Imperial (both in Imperial County), and at a San Bernardino County jail.

The action is a resumption of a three-week hunger strike in July that, at its peak, spread to 6,600 inmates in at least 13 prisons. That strike ended when corrections officials told the prisoners they would review and change some policies.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/28/BAEE1LB1A1.DTL

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1. K&R for change....

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2. The story never says which conditions they are protesting?