After refusing breakfast, a group of 42 maximum-security inmates at Utah State Prison’s Uinta facility announced a hunger strike and issued demands to state prison officials.
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According to Adams, corrections officials are offering inmates medical evaluations while they refrain from eating. All of the inmates involved are housed in maximum security and are “documented gang members”, according to the press release. Brooke Adams, Public Information Officer for the Utah Department of Corrections, stated Sunday the inmates are demanding these inmates be launched from most safety and incarcerated elsewhere.
“The department also has inventoried food items in each participating inmate’s cell to document potential nutritional intake”, the release reads.
ACLU officials say inmates are concerned they are spending too much time in confinement, they don’t have access to rehabilitative programs and that there isn’t enough protein in their meals.
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She says the prison is working to ensure routine operations aren’t disrupted.
