GARANCE BURKE and MARTHA MENDOZA / The Associated PressFeb 19, 2019
Democratic lawmakers call for the investigation after the agency confirms it had been imposing the procedure on detainees on a hunger strike. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
GARANCE BURKE and MARTHA MENDOZA / The Associated PressFeb 3, 2019
Authorities say there are now nine men being force-fed under court order in a detention center in El Paso, Texas. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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GARANCE BURKE and MARTHA MENDOZA / The Associated PressJan 31, 2019
Immigration officials say 11 migrants at the El Paso Processing Center in Texas have been refusing food, some for more than 30 days. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigAug 18, 2016
The women and their families at a Pennsylvania "residential center" have wound up on the cruel end of the Obama administration’s immigration policies, but they’re not accepting their treatment without a fight. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanDec 31, 2015
As the clock counts down to the new year, another clock will continue ticking, counting the days, hours, minutes and seconds since May 23, 2013, the day President Barack Obama promised to free all those prisoners at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay who have been cleared for release. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 15, 2015
Wal-Mart's workers are so poor they’re skipping lunch, sharing the food of others or stealing from co-workers, some of them said as they announced a 15-day fast aimed at raising the company's wages. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigSep 2, 2015
Finally, some better news from our nation's prison-industrial complex: California announced Tuesday that thousands of inmates in the state's prisons would be shifted out of solitary confinement. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Roisin Davis / TruthdigJul 31, 2015
Palestinians held in Israeli jails have used hunger strikes as a method of nonviolent resistance to protest the policy of detention without charge or trial. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 9, 2015
U.S. Justice Department attorneys argued -- at a hearing on a lawsuit seeking to make public the videotapes of a prisoner being force-fed at Guantanamo Bay prison -- that courts cannot order the unsealing of evidence that has been classified by the government. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 22, 2014
A former employee of the behemoth online retailer is set to go on a hunger strike Tuesday outside of its Seattle headquarters in an attempt to force the company to change certain of its "deceptive and fraudulent" business practices. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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