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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.
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.
A prison riot at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina, United States occurred on April 15, 2018. Starting as a prison cell robbery, violence between prison gangs intensified into a full-blown riot leading to the death of seven prisoners. It was the most violent prison riot in the United States within the last 25 years.
The most famous site in this prison are the "tiger cages" (chuồng cọp). The French tiger cages cover an area of 5.475 m 2, within which each cell occupies 1.408 m 2, solariums occupy 1.873 m 2, and other spaces occupy 2.194 m 2. The prison includes 120 cells. The prison was closed after the end of the Vietnam War and opened for visitors ...
The prisoners reportedly escaped through a wooden ladder placed at the back portion of the prison. [4] Earlier before the attack, the local police of Amas was warned of plans of a jail siege to free high-profile inmates. The barangay volunteer security group which was not armed warned the residents of the locality of the possible attack. [3]
A military veteran who was convicted of injuring a police officer's hand during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison. John George Todd III ...
The Women's Center for Social Adaptation is a women's prison located in Támara, [2] Francisco Morazán Department. [3] At the time, the prison housed between 800 [2] and 900 [4] inmates, double its rated capacity. [2] The prison has been an ongoing scene of cross-gang conflict, particularly between the 18th Street gang and MS-13, deadly ...