Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
This page was last edited on 30 October 2024, at 17:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Two weeks before the riot, two corrections officers were assaulted on 4 Gallery of the North Cellhouse, Bailey said. He and another guard were called to help quell the situation.
He was awarded 22 days solitary confinement in the Punishment Block of the H Blocks, for attacking fifteen prison officers. He continued to read the prison issue KJV Bible, and on 12 August 1979 he called upon God and told him that he believed His word - 'Whosoever calleth on the Name of the Lord, shall be saved' (Romans 10:13); . [15]
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 Peruvian prison massacres occurred on June 18–19, 1986, after a series of riots in the San Pedro, Santa Mónica, and El Frontón prisons in Lima and Callao. The military repression of these riots resulted in the loss of at least 300 lives.
"Attica State" is a song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono as Plastic Ono Band. It appeared on the album Some Time in New York City.The song is a lamentation of the loss of life in the Attica State prison riots, as well as the poor living conditions and human rights prisoners are afforded in the United States.
[2] In addition to her work involving the detainees, she negotiated an end to a prison riot. [1] [7] She also persuaded the jail administrators to discontinue prisoner incarceration in substandard cells known as the tumbas ("tombs"). [1] After a period of declining health, Brenner died on October 17, 2013, aged 86, at her Tijuana home. [8] [9]