In Washington state, immigrant rights groups say a hunger strike at an ICE jail grew to more than 750 people Wednesday, or about half the population of the for-profit detention center in Tacoma. The hunger strikers are demanding better food and conditions, and are protesting the fact they are paid only $1 a day for jail work assignments. This is an audio recording of hunger striker Johnathan Rodriguez Guzman.

Johnathan Rodriguez Guzman: “We don’t have contact visits here. So that’s one of the things that we wanted to point out to them. The food, to give us better food, better medical care. Or we shouldn’t be held indoors 23 hours. We should be able to get sun more than just one hour.”

ICE policy dictates that hunger strikers can face force-feeding after refusing meals for 72 hours. It’s not clear if ICE will impose the policy today, when some of the protesters will have been on hunger strike for three days.