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CT - Inmate in force-feeding case continues testimony

View the article here 02/11/2009 By PAT EATON-ROBB HARTFORD - A Connecticut inmate on a hunger strike to protest his rape conviction testified Wednesday that being force-fed by prison officials was the worst pain he has experienced in his life. The state Department of Correction is seeking a court order allowing it to continue force-feeding _____. _____ says the feedings violate right of free speech. Testimony in the civil case concluded Wednesday in Hartford Superior Court, where Judge James T. Graham is not expected to make a ruling until after oral arguments in the spring. A temporary order allowing the force-feedings will remain in effect until then. _____, 58, a British citizen and native of Liverpool, has been on the hunger strike for 17 months to protest his conviction for a 2002 rape...continue to full post

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