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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.
In March 2020 a riot in the La Modelo prison in Bogota, killed 24 inmates and injured 90 others over fears of COVID-19. The Tuluá prison houses about 1,267 inmates and the cell block where the fire occurred housed 180, but the prison was operating at 117% capacity. [2] [3]
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Officials in Thailand say a riot at a prison in a northeastern province was set off when inmates plotting to escape spread false rumors that several prisoners were infected with the coronavirus.
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.
A clash between prison gangs armed with guns and knives left 20 people dead, Ecuadorian officials said Monday, and they announced that they had fully regained control of the penitentiary.
The next day, Mexican police managed to recapture three inmates and 8 criminals involved in the prison raid. [7] Two law enforcement officers, one a policeman and the second a guard, were injured in the attack. [2] The government of Hidalgo has launched an investigation aiming to track the criminals down. The program is still ongoing. [4]
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