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Balancing the health and rights of hunger-striking inmates

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Strapping prisoners to a bed and force feeding them through their nose is a practice we usually associated with terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay. But it also happens on a regular basis in Wisconsin prisons. Gil Halsted reports…

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