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Inmates refuse food service by ‘sex offender’

Jul 30, 2008
By Marge Tubalkain-Trell

CRIMINAL CONSCIENCE: Many criminals, some of whom were murderers, refused to eat from the hand of a suspected sex offender.
TALLINN - More than one hundred inmates at Tallinn Prison have launched a hunger strike because they refuse to be served food by a fellow prisoner whom they believe to be a rapist. The strike began on July 24, when dozens of prisoners refused food. The number has since grown to 153. Some of the prisoners have petitioned the prison director, while others simply will not eat. Prison authorities would not specify what offense the detainee had committed. According to prison director Erkki Osolai ...


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