A large-scale hunger strike in protest of the state’s solitary confinement practices started Tuesday, with about 300 people incarcerated across Texas reported to be participating. | via texasstandard
The Texas Legislature gaveled into session on Tuesday, but as lawmakers were reconvening at the statehouse, people incarcerated in Texas prisons were demanding to be heard.
Michele Deitch, the director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, said the individuals are striking until the Texas Department of Criminal Justice meets a series of demands that were first made several months ago. “ trying to move from more of a status-based system to a behavioral-based system. A lot of people are placed in restrictive housing simply because of their status as an identified gang member, not necessarily because they’ve broken any rules or behaved in a way that’s dangerous to the community,” Deitch said. “So one of the requests is that they use behavior as a guide to who should be in there.”
“The thought was, if you could separate people who are in gangs from the general population, it would create a safer environment. And in many ways, that is the case,” she said. “However, it has created really what amounts to torture for people who are in that setting. There’s a lot of research showing that people who are confined 23 hours a day in these very small settings without human contact develop suicidal ideation. They develop mental health issues.
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