Ruling prohibits continued force-feeding of inmate

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A Dodge County judge has ordered the Department of Corrections to stop force feeding an inmate who has carried on the longest hunger strike in the history of the Wisconsin prison system. The ruling sites international law and several excerpts from federal courtdecisions concerning hunger striking detainees at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. Gil Halsted reports…

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