Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 02:59:27 PM EDT

http://www.bluejersey.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=14832

Nina Bernstein of the NY Times hits the nail on the head in her article describing a hunger strike in Hudson County jail among immigrant detainees, recently moved into Hudson after the closure of Manhattan's Varick Street detention center. Communication with lawyers, family and friends is difficult, if not impossible, and they are being gouged by phone charges.