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= Nonviolent Action = In January of 2011, three men sentenced to Ohio’s Death Row staged a twelve-day long hunger strike in response to not receiving the same privileges as the other prisoners on Ohio’s Death Row. The strikers, Keith Lamar, Jason Robb, and Carlos Sanders were sentenced to Death Row following their involvement in the 1993 Lucasville Uprising.

The influence for the Hunger Strike came from the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike which lasted for 53 days. The Ohio Death Row strikers began their liquid diets on January 3rd, of 2011. The strike was rooted in hopes of increasing their quality of life on Death Row. Requests included more time out of their cells, access to sunlight, access to more food and warm-weather clothing through commissary, semi-contact visits, and access to further legal help, like the legal resources LexisNexis and Westlaw in order to assist their attorneys to file appeals to their sentences. During this time, these privileges were offered to the other Ohio Death Row inmates.

Throughout the strike, they had met with the Warden in hopes of receiving a signed agreement to their demands. On January 14, 2011 they the strikers had received a signed statement by the warden outlining the Ohio State Penitentiary’s agreement to their demands. By January 15, 2011, they had received 1,200 signatures on a letter of support of the strike to the Warden that had gone worldwide. The strike ended following the agreement on January 14th for Robb, but Lamar and Sanders held out for another day.