BY ALEXIS KRELL – Tacoma News Tribune
September 18, 2018 05:51 PM
Hunger strikers, including one who reportedly hasn’t eaten for nearly a month, have sued to prevent being force-fed as they protest conditions at the immigration detention center on the Tacoma Tideflats.
Northwest Detention Center detainees Viacheslav Poliakov and Raquel Martinez Diaz asked U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle last week for an order to prohibit them being force fed. They also sought to keep hunger strikers from being threatened with segregation or being put in solitary confinement for their protests.
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