NEW LISBON - An inmate at the
New Lisbon Correctional Institution is accusing officials
there of using violent methods to force-feed him after he
launched a hunger strike.
Fifty-seven-year-old Warren
Lilly is serving a 10-year sentence on a battery charge.
After he began his hunger strike more than three years
ago, the prison clinic began force-feeding him twice a day
through tubes inserted in his nose.
In a letter to a friend,
Lilly says guards have forced him to submit by spraying
Mace in his face or using a stun gun.
Department of Corrections
spokesman John Dipko says guards are just doing their
jobs. He says they're complying with a court order to keep
Lilly from starving to death.
Lilly is continuing a legal
battle to prohibit the force-feedings.
