MADISON, WI (AP)-- The state Department of Corrections is looking into allegations a guard assaulted an inmate while he was force-feeding him.
Cesar DeLeon is one of five prisoners at Waupun Correctional Institution who have refused to eat since June 7 as a protest against. long-term solitary confinement.
The Industrial Workers of the World, a labor union working with the inmates to promote the strike, issued a news release Monday saying that DeLeon has filed a complaint against a guard alleging he assaulted him while force-feeding him.
The union also says prison officials won't let DeLeon's mother visit him any longer.
DOC spokesman Tristan Cook said in an email to The Associated Press that the agency has received the allegations and is reviewing them.
