Newsday is reporting that over 50 detainees at the Wackenhut Detention Facility in Queens New York have been staging a hunger strike for over a week. The men, all asylum seekers, are being held in a windowless warehouse which used to store cargo headed for JFK airport. The men are being detained indefinitely while the Department of Homeland Security reviews their asylum applications. None of the men have been charged with a crime but they describe living in jail-like conditions. They are dressed in uniforms, transported in handcuffs and shackles and never allowed to go outside.