San Francisco, August 31 (RHC)-- In the U.S., dozens of detainees at two immigrant prisons in the state of California relaunched a hunger and labor strike this month to protest their inhumane treatment at the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex facilities. 

Both of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement prisons are run by the for-profit prison company GEO Group.  Among other things, detainees report medical neglect, lack of drinking water, poor food quality that has made them sick, sexual harassment and abuse, working for just $1 a day, and retaliation for speaking out. 

Protesters rallied in solidarity with the striking detainees in San Francisco earlier this week and delivered copies of recent civil rights complaints to California Senator Alex Padilla.