SHERIDAN, Ore. (AP) — A court filing says prison officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon, denied showers to those held in a unit where people were engaged in a hunger strike. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports a federal public defender says about 80 people housed in the detention center’s “J2 Unit” were protesting conditions inside the detention center. The day after some of the men in custody did not accept meals, documents say prison warden DeWayne Hendrix issued a memo to people in that unit saying showers were postponed. The Bureau of Prisons didn’t answer questions from OPB about the memo or whether the water was cut off in an effort to end the hunger strike.
Lawyer: People at federal prison denied showers amid strike
