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Victor Pate, organizer for #HALTsolitary Campaign, announces the hunger strike at the State Capitol. Photo courtesy of Michelle Lewin

Will a hunger strike reform solitary confinement in New York?

When Anthony Dixon was held in solitary confinement for two straight years at ultra-maximum-security Southport Correctional Facility in upstate New York in the 1990s, he considered killing himself. “After a year, something clicked inside of me that I could not identify. I was in a catatonic state. I was like a mummy in a mummy state,” Dixon told the Brooklyn

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