Court ruling strikes out do-not-resuscitate orders that authorities argue inmates may have signed under duress The California prison of Crescent Bay, site of one of the secure housing units that are at the centre of a statewide hunger strike. Photograph: Rich Pedroncelli/AP Jail officials in California have been given permission to force-feed hunger strikers who are entering their seventh week of a statewide protest against prison conditions. The order strikes out directives recently signed by some prisoners that they be allowed to die. US District Court Judge Thelton E Henderson, responding to a request by state authorities, ruled that California prison doctors may force-feed selected...
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