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Inmates launch half-hour hunger strike about turkey diet
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Some Colorado prisoners are complaining their food is for the birds.
Five straight turkey dinners prompted El Paso County jail inmates to go on a brief hunger strike.
The inmates refused to eat Saturday, arguing that meals such as turkey chili mac, turkey a la king, turkey stew and turkey sausage were unnecessarily cruel.
Sheriff's officials said Wednesday that the hunger strike lasted a half hour.
"Turkey, turkey and more turkey is not a form of punishment," the sheriff's office said in a tongue-in-cheek prepared statement. "The inmates accepted this reasoning and gobbled up their dinner meal."
The inmates had spaghetti for dinner Wednesday -- with turkey-based meat sauce.
http://www.courttv.com/people/2005/0805/turkeystrike_ap.html
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Some Colorado prisoners are complaining their food is for the birds.
Five straight turkey dinners prompted El Paso County jail inmates to go on a brief hunger strike.
The inmates refused to eat Saturday, arguing that meals such as turkey chili mac, turkey a la king, turkey stew and turkey sausage were unnecessarily cruel.
Sheriff's officials said Wednesday that the hunger strike lasted a half hour.
"Turkey, turkey and more turkey is not a form of punishment," the sheriff's office said in a tongue-in-cheek prepared statement. "The inmates accepted this reasoning and gobbled up their dinner meal."
The inmates had spaghetti for dinner Wednesday -- with turkey-based meat sauce.
http://www.courttv.com/people/2005/0805/turkeystrike_ap.html
