By Ian Lovett
The New York Times
LOS ANGELES — The hunger strike at California state prisons has ended, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Thursday.
Thousands of inmates at prisons across California had stopped eating over the past three weeks in renewed protest against conditions of prolonged isolation in security housing units, though the number of hunger strikers dwindled to fewer than 600 this week.
But after negotiations on Thursday between the corrections department and lawyers representing the inmates, strike leaders agreed to resume eating.
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