centredaily.com – BY Lori Falce
Bellefonte – The Department of Corrections is determined to keep Shawn Shannon Quinnones alive.
On Wednesday, the DOC filed suit in Centre County court for an injunction allowing Benner state prison personnel to forcibly provide medical services to Quinnones, 40, an inmate who has decided to stop eating. On Friday, Judge Pamela A. Ruest upheld her temporary injunction after a hearing in which Quinnones testified that her hunger strike was a protest of her treatment at the prison as a transgendered individual.