Hunger Strike at Port Isabel

The Texas Observer reports that detainees at the Port Isabel Processing Center, a detention facility north of Brownsville, have been on a hunger strike for more than two weeks. “articipating inmates say they’re protesting physical and verbal mistreatment, but they add that their message is larger than the conditions at Port Isabel, which holds 1,200 inmates. `The main reason is the prolonged detention we’re all subjected to,’  R0a Carty, one of the strikers, tells the Observer in a phone interview.”

Many of Port Isabel’s detainees have been transferred from various corners of the United States. Many are thousands of miles from their attorneys.

Hattip to Texas correspondent, Cappy White

KJ