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Story summary
- Detainees at the GEO Group-run Folkston ICE center launched a mass hunger strike.
- At least 73 detainees are refusing food to protest long detention and substandard conditions.
- They allege moldy food, foul water, leaky ceilings, inadequate medical care and xenophobic staff.
- Russian asylum seeker Idris Makhmudov, a lead organizer, was placed in solitary confinement.
- ICE has sought court orders for involuntary procedures on 19 hunger strikers since Jan 2025.