Monthlong hunger strike ends at ICE detention center

Monthlong hunger strike ends at ICE detention center

Detainee at Northwest Detention Center ends strike over continuing solitary confinement and medical neglect For 29 days, Steven Chavarria Portillo refused to eat. This was far from the first hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), one of the country’s largest immigration detention centers. There have been nine hunger strikes at NWDC in just the first couple of months of this year, and Chavarria Portillo himself has engaged in se…