CLALLAM BAY — Clallam Bay Corrections Center Superintendent Sandra Carter will address inmates’ grievances next month.
Her decision follows a hunger strike that lasted almost three weeks.
Prison inmates resumed eating Saturday after Carter agreed to address their concerns individually during the first week of February, prison spokeswoman LeAnne Fletcher said Thursday.
Since the first wave of the hunger strike began Dec. 31, inmates in the prison’s Intensive Management Unit for “out-of-control” prisoners who cannot live with the facility’s general population have protested mistreatment, poor living conditions and the denial of some of their rights.
Associate Superintendent Kathy Kaatz last week said the inmates’ primary grievance is that although they may remain infraction-free, they are not allowed to move up in the “levels of privilege” system.
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