Documented Reasons for Starting a Hunger Strike (2015 – 2022)
Pre-ICRA | Post-ICRA | All | p | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Housing change | 25.8% | 25.8% | 25.8% | 1 |
Protest discipline | 19.9% | 19.4% | 19.7% | 1 |
Conflict with custody | 11.3% | 3.2% | 8.9% | .108 |
Suspected psychiatric symptoms | 8.6% | 11.3% | 9.4% | .607 |
Unknown | 8.6% | 9.7% | 8.9% | .795 |
Disagreement with medical treatment | 8.0% | 11.3% | 8.9% | .436 |
Conditions of confinement | 6.6% | 8.1% | 7.0% | .770 |
Legal | 4.0% | 6.5% | 4.7% | .482 |
Parole | 3.3% | 0.0% | 2.4% | .325 |
Disagreement with mental health treatment | 2.7% | 6.5% | 3.8% | .235 |
Property | 2.7% | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1 |
Classification | 2.7% | 0.0% | 1.9% | .325 |
Conflict with peers | 2.7% | 0.0% | 1.9% | .325 |
Dietary | 2.0% | 4.9% | 2.8% | .360 |
Lack of family contact | 1.3% | 1.6% | 1.4% | 1 |
Support hunger striking peer | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.9% | 1 |
ICRA = Isolated Confinement Restriction Act.