"Prisoners across Texas are readying themselves to send a dramatic message to prison officials and state lawmakers: We won’t eat until you address the state’s harsh solitary confinement practices.
For about a year, a group of prisoners has been organizing support inside and outside prison walls to push the state to limit which people are kept in solitary confinement and for how long, according to an independent activist working closely with the men.
Texas’ solitary confinement practices are some of the harshest in the country...Thousands of prisoners are kept isolated for extended periods of time, their only human contact the occasional brush of a hand through their food slot while receiving a dinner tray or being handcuffed for often rare trips to the shower or a caged outdoor area for solo recreation."
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/09/texas-prisons-hunger-strike-solitary/