California prison inmates end hunger strike

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A two-month hunger strike across California prisons came to an end Thursday, a week after two state legislators promised to look into concerns about inmate conditions.

State prison officials announced Thursday that all participants in the protest had started accepting food.

At a news conference Thursday in Oakland, Anne Weills, an attorney for the prisoners, said they "feel they have won a significant victory."

She read a statement from the inmates that read, in part, "Our goal remains: force the powers that be to end their torture policies and practices in which serious physical and psychological harm is inflicted on tens of thousands of prisoners as well as our loved ones outside."

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, and Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, last week called for legislative hearings to address inmate complaints about conditions in maximum-security prisons.