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The November 2024 Guayaquil prison riot occurred on 12 November 2024 at the notoriously overcrowded Litoral Penitentiary/Guayas 1 Prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, killing at least 17 and injuring 15 people in clashes of drug gangs with connections to Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.
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.
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.
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.
Reports say signs of a riot were incoming as inmates had heard chatter the day before that pavilion 2 would be the target. [ 1 ] The attack was launched at 7pm local time on 13 November 2021, when prisoners from pavilions 3, 6 and 12 (all controlled by the gang Los Choneros ), tried to enter pavilion 2 of the prison, where 700 inmates were kept ...
(Bloomberg) -- Luxembourg’s main prison erupted in violence overnight after about 25 inmates rioted to demand better conditions as the nation seeks to contain the spread of Covid-19 in its jails ...
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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.