A hunger strike at a Texas immigrant detention center for women has swelled from 27 women to potentially hundreds, and three ringleaders have faced retaliation from the facility, activists said on Tuesday.
Women at T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, began the strike last Wednesday in hopes of being released, said Cristina Parker of Grassroots Leadership, a group publicizing the women's protest.
"They're only after one thing, and that's release," Parker said.
Female detainees told Parker's organization this week that almost all of them are now participating in the ts they are facing retaliation from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Corrections
