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May 11, 2020

Hunger-Striking Immigrant Women Released from California Prison
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In California, over a dozen immigrant women have been released from the
for-profit Mesa Verde detention center in Bakersfield after they held a
hunger strike demanding they be freed from the squalid facility during
the pandemic. Mesa Verde is owned by the private prison company GEO
Group. Meanwhile, jailed immigrants at Northwest Detention Center in
Washington state have initiated a collective work stoppage protesting
their worsening conditions inside the facility amid the pandemic.


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