A nineteen-day nationwide prison strike launched on Tuesday has now caught on in at least one immigrant detention facility. Detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington wrote a handwritten letter that was posted to the NWDC Resistance Facebook page announcing their decision to strike in solidarity with imprisoned persons across the country. The hunger strike is calling for minimum wages for working prisoners, improved conditions in prisons, and the possibility of parole for all prisoners. The initiative was spearheaded by Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, who advocate that prison labor is unconstitutional and equivalent to slavery.
See "Immigrants in ICE Detention Have Joined the Nationwide Prison Strike", Esther Wang, The Slot, August 24, 2018