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The hunger strike ended, but the most dangerous medical phase began after they were sent back inside. Right, so Sodexo is a multinational outsourcing company that runs prisons for the British state, including HMP Bronzefield, and it’s now been accused of abusing Palestine Action prisoners for one very simple reason: a hunger strike ended and the system rushed to move on while the danger was still sitting there. Seventy days without food stopped, prisoners were taken to hospital, and then some were sent straight back into custody while the most dangerous medical phase was still ongoing. And that quietly kicks away a prop a lot of people rely on — the idea that once a protest ends, responsibility tapers off and everything settles back into “normal” because it stops being talked about. It doesn’t. What fails here is the confidence that privatisation ... 

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