Prisoners have refused food to protest practices that have kept more than 500 people in isolation for more than a decade. Texas TexasPrisons HungerStrike prisoners
in 2013 and years of prisoner-led litigation, California agreed to no longer place people in solitary based only on their gang status, nor keep them in isolation indefinitely.
So far, TDCJ has not given any indication it will bend. Hernandez said agency intelligence pinned the origin of the strike to an order from an Aryan Brotherhood of Texas member in federal prison. Robertson dismissed TDCJ’s claim, countering that many, if not the majority, of the men striking are members of the Mexican Mafia or other gangs. They would not take orders from a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, she said.
Prisoners and Deitch also argued the reentry program for confirmed gang members to renounce their gangs and go back into the general prison population, as Hernandez noted, can take years to get into. It also can require prisoners to incriminate themselves or snitch on other gang members, they said, keeping many away from it.
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