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Hunger strike begins as California prisons hand down biggest restrictions since Covid

NEARLY TWO DOZEN state prisons last week imposed sweeping restrictions on their incarcerated population — including shutting off all outside communication. Now, hundreds of prisoners are reported to be on a hunger strike to protest the system’s largest restrictions since the pandemic.  The corrections department “significantly limited” the daily activities and movement of roughly 34,000 incarcerated people […]

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