Prisoners who choose to hunger strike do so because they’ve been denied all other forms of expression to protest injustices (injustices like not getting their own PlayStation). Often, the prison ends up force-feeding them, which is so horrific that it works at gaining the prisoner publicity and sympathy. As Milat went days without eating, Coulburn was prepared to feed him intravenously if he fainted. In the end, he lasted nine days, without fainting, before giving up and eating again.
The prison had not given in to his demands. During those nine days, news sources say he lost 25 kilograms (55 pounds), a figure that strains credibility.
This wasn’t Milat’s wildest stunt. In 2009, he cut off his pinky finger, planning to mail it to a judge. As a result, when he demanded his PlayStation, a prison official quipped that “there’d be no point if he got one because he needs two hands to use it.” Goulburn was wrong about that, though. You don’t use your pinky at all with a controller, and you can even get adaptive controllers and play totally one-handed. So, good news for everyone with accessibility issues (who isn’t currently incarcerated for killing seven hitchhikers).
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