After calling off a planned hunger strike, Santa Clara County inmates began refusing food anyway to protest comments by Sheriff Smith.

Santa Clara County inmates are set to refuse food to protest what they call the arbitrary use of solitary confinement and other jail conditions.

Santa Clara County inmates suspended a hunger strike over solitary confinement Friday after a discussion with jail officials.

The union for Santa Clara County sheriff deputies has come out in support of jail inmates staging a two-week hunger strike.

Santa Clara County inmates kicked off a hunger strike to protest solitary confinement and what they see as a gap between policy and practice.