Isolation & cold cells: Women asylum seekers go on hunger strike to protest mistreatment

‘The only all-women’s immigration detention facility in the country is reportedly dealing with over two dozen hunger strikers demanding to be immediately released. Government sources dispute the claim, but some women and their lawyers are speaking out.

Threats of transfer, deportation, and disciplinary report filings, as well as intrusive surveillance and other retaliatory tactics have been used against detainees at the T. Don Hutto Detention Center in Taylor, Texas since 27 women inmates started refusing food on October 28, according to immigrants, activists and lawyers.

“We are not going to sit by and let this happen,” Christina Parker, a program director for Grassroots Leadership, told Shadowproof, adding, “we’re not going to be quiet.”’

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