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Texas prisoners stage hunger strike to protest use of solitary confinement

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Dozens of inmates in Texas prisons have been staging a hunger strike for more than a week. They want a change in the way prison officials use indefinite solitary confinement. About 3,100 Texas prisoners are now in solitary and hundreds of them have been held that way for more than a decade. John Yang discussed the strike with Paul Flahive of Texas Public Radio.

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hunger strike texas, hunger strike texas prison, indefinite solitary confinement
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