Conventional thinking holds that most inmates who hunger strike do not desire to die.
Rather, they want prison officials to concede to their demands. In this paper, I examine …

Hunger strikes are commonly repressed in prison and seen as disruptive, coercive, and
violent. Hunger strikers and their advocates insist that incarcerated persons have a right to …

Chronic starvation and its associated metabolic derangements are known to have
dangerous cardiovascular implications in the long term, but less is known about the …