My Assigned blog is about the California Prison Hunger Strike. The strike is going on it's 9th day, the reason they are doing this is because they are angry about being in soitary confinment for to long. There is about 12,000 immates participating in the strike. This is the second hunger strike this year. The fist one lasted for weeks. This one started on September 26, and is still going on now. The prisoners have made some demands. Those demands are a change in prison policy, an end to group lockdowns, and they want more privilges for the people who are in solitary confindment. This is the same prison that led the monthlong hunger strike in July this summer. They are doing this again because they say that their demands have not been met yet.http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/04/justice/california-prison-hunger-strike/index.htmlhttp://www.prisons.org/hungerstrike.htm
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