http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/nyregion/21jail.html

Jail Protest by Immigrant Detainees Is Broken Up by Agents
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: January 20, 2010
Agents in riot gear from Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to break up a hunger strike by detainees at the Varick Federal Detention Center in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, three detainees at the center said Wednesday in telephone interviews.

Matthew Chandler, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, denied that there was “a sustained hunger strikeâ€