Detainees Launch Another Hunger Strike at Tacoma Immigrant Detention Center to Protest Facility Conditions

by Ana Sofia KnaufThe Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma is operated by GEO Group, a Bill Gates-backed private prison company. ASK
Today marks the third day detainees refused meals to protest conditions at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, the largest immigrant detention facility on the West Coast. About 16 people began a hunger strike—or, in Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials' terms, a "meal refusal"—on Tuesday after about 20 men were taken to solitary confineme