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OSP Prisoners on Hunger Strike.
According to Siddique Abdullah Hasan, many prisoners at OSP started a hunger strike today protesting recent policy changes that illegally restrict prisoner access to recreation and programming,...
View ArticleUpdate on Hungerstrike for Access to Programming and Recreation at OSP
This is an update on this hunger strike. According to both Hasan and Warden Forshey, there are over 30 people officially on hunger strike at OSP (meaning they have skipped 9 meals, and submitted to...
View ArticleColumbus Free Press on the Recent OSP Hunger Strike.
From The Columbus Free Press. During a press conference on Monday, March 16, Siddique Hasan announced that a hunger strike was underway at the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP). Hasan had called in to the...
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Fight Back! Interview with Hasan.
Siddique Abdullah Hasan did this radio interview about the hunger strike on Fight Back! With Bob Fitrakis.
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OSP Hunger Strike Enters Second Week
These cages are similar to the ones OSP used to give level 5B prisoners access to programming.OSP claims they do not provide enough security. On Monday March 16th, over 30 supermax prisoners at Ohio...
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OSP Hunger Strike Enters Third Week
The range at OSPTen prisoners at OSP have been on hunger strike since Monday March 16th. Supporters have been calling the prison and the legal services department at ODRC central office with no...
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Hunger Strike Update: Misinformation and Transfer to Isolation
[to support the hunger strike, please see this post for directions to call ODRC director Gary Mohr and the CIIC]Sixteen days after starting their hunger strike, eight remaining hunger striking...
View ArticleProblem COs Harass OSP Hunger Strikers.
Three of the Correctional Officers (COs) in charge of D block, where the eight hunger striking prisoners are being housed have begun reprisals against them. CO Burns, CO Kish, and CO Titus are engaged...
View ArticleOSP Top Staff Finally Meets with Hunger Strikers, but Refuses to Negotiate.
On Fri April 4th, top staff at OSP visited the hunger strikers to talk about their demands. Warden Forshey, Deputy Wardens Charmain Bracy and Jeff Remmick and Captain Brown visited the cell door of...
View ArticleHunger Strikers In Distress
Two of the hunger striking prisoners up at OSP are showing severe signs of illness.Joseph Nagel #589-333 was unable to hold down water, was vomiting and taken to the infirmary. They checked him out and...
View ArticleUpdate on Hunger Striker's Health
Siddique Abdullah Hasan, #R130-559, phoned this morning and reported the following information about men in D-block at the Ohio State Penitentiary who have been on hunger strike since March 16,...
View ArticleHunger Strike Update...
As far as we know, three men from the hunger strike have suffered significant medical issues. We're not sure if those three are still on, but we're pretty certain that at least five of the hunger...
View ArticleTues April 14th, First Day of Solidarity
As the Ohio State Penitentiary hunger strike approaches 30 days, we will rally at the Ohio Dept of Rehabilitation and Correction in Columbus, and deliver a letter to top officials demanding justice.3pm...
View ArticleUpdate from Hasan
This is an excerpt of a message from Hasan, for a more thorough and recent account of things, see his interview with The Final Straw.Revolutionary Greetings!Alice Staughton and I met with Warden...
View ArticleHunger Strike Suspended- One Prisoner Continues Hunger Strike in Protest to...
After extensive negotiations, and over 30 days without food, the hunger strikers have suspended their strike. This is a mixed victory, some demands were met, others not. The warden conceded as little...
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ODRC Rally Report Back
On Tuesday April 14th, protestors gathered at the ODRC Central office to show solidarity with the hunger strike. More pics and reportbackWe had a great action today in Columbus. Supporters met each...
View ArticleACLU of Ohio on The OSP Hunger Strike
From ACLUOhio.org04.13.15Extreme Conditions At State Penitentiary Must End, Says ACLUACLU Asks for Independent Investigation of Policies That Allow Dangerous Isolation of Prisoners Read the ACLU...
View ArticleRadio Interveiws on the Hunger Strike
While the hunger strike was going on, Hasan did an interview with The Final Straw out of Asheville NC, and supporter Ben Turk did an interview with Block Report, about Sean Swain's recent hunger...
View ArticleSolitary Watch Article on Recent Hunger Strike and Conditions at OSP.
From SolitaryWatch.comLast week, men incarcerated at Ohio’s supermax prison, the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, brought a month-long hunger strike to a close. Between 30 and 40 men had refused...
View ArticleLast Hunger Striker Resumes eating.
Sedrick Tucker #117-137 has come off the hunger strike, is back in his regular cell and is doing okay. More details coming soon. Tucker continued his hunger strike after the others suspended theirs...
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