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A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners.. Academic studies of prison riots emphasize a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, [1] [2] [3] or discuss the dynamics of the modern prison riot.
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons. ... North Carolina fires Mack Brown a day after he said he planned ...
The Kaohsiung Prison riot was a hostage situation that occurred at Kaohsiung Prison in Taiwan starting 11 February 2015. Six inmates, whose ringleader was a member of Bamboo Union , [ 3 ] seized weapons, including assault rifles , and took the warden hostage for a 14-hour high-profile stand-off, which caught media attention nationwide.
The riots lasted 11 days, involved more than 100 hostages, and burned down a substantial portion of the facility. [3] During the riot, 32 year-old Cuban inmate Jose Pena-Perez was killed by a correctional officer. According to prison warden Joseph Petrovsky, the officer shot the inmate to protect a fellow officer. [2]
An October 2022 riot at the Ohio Department of Youth Services' Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility in Massillon started when a new employee opened a cell door for a teen who asked for water.
The deadly melee broke out on Tuesday afternoon at the Ely State Prison in a rural mining town some 250 miles (400 km) north of Las Vegas. Nevada prison fight leaves three inmates dead, nine ...
A three-day prison takeover and stand-off took place in 2018 between the Indonesian National Police and inmates convicted of terrorist activities who were imprisoned at the Police's Mobile Brigade Corps's headquarters (Mako Brimob) in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. The inmates took control over one prison block and 6 police officers were taken ...
The report also cites a shrinking prison population, which fell by 34,000 over the last five years, the largest period of decline in the last decade. The population is projected to fall from ...