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Greece: Hunger Strike by Prisoners results in cutting prison population in half!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Hunger strike ends as Greek government caves Thursday, November 20 2008 @ 11:36 PM CST After 18 days 7,000 prisoners in Greece stop their hunger strike after the ministry of justice concedes to a series of their demands, promising to release half the country's prison population by April 2009. On Thursday the 20th of November more than 7,000 hunger strikers in Greek prisons demanding a comprehensive 45-point program of prison reform have decided to stop their hunger strike, already on its 18th day, after the Ministry of Justice responded to their struggle and to the widening solidarity movement which in the last weeks has held several mass protest marches in the Greek cities by declaring that by next April the number of prisoners in Greek jails will be reduced to 6...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 07, 2008 (boomark / email).