Almost 30,000 of California's 133,000 inmates are refusing meals in support of convicts being held in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison.
Prisoners announced the third extended hunger strike in two years to protest against conditions for more than 4,500 gang members, gang associates and serious offenders held in the security housing units.
The isolation units are at Pelican Bay near the Oregon border and at three other maximum security prisons around the state.
On Monday and Tuesday, inmates refused breakfast and lunch at two-thirds of the state's 33 prisons and at all four private prisons that hold California inmates in other states. It is not known how many prisoners skipped dinners.
One of the solitary confinement cells at Pelican Bay The number of participants in the protest eclipses two hunger strikes two years ago.
Nearly 12,000 inmates missed at least some meals in October 2011, and nearly 7,000 declined meals in July 2011, though officials said most began eating again after several days.
Pelican Bay inmates said the protest began after talks with prison officials broke down last month over demands that the department end long-term solitary confinement that can last for decades.
Corrections department officials said it changed its policies last year to give gang associates a way out of the units.
California prisoners last went on a mass hunger strike in 2011 About half of the nearly 400 inmates considered so far have been or will be let out of solitary confinement, while another 115 are in a programme in which they can work their way out of the units.
A federal judge in April refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by 10 Pelican Bay prisoners alleging their living conditions in the isolation units are unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
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