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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]
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.
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.
Prison riots by country (7 C) G. Prison gang violence (11 P) M. Prison massacres (2 C, 40 P) U. Prison uprisings (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Prison riots"
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2014 Vietnam anti-China protest (Vietnamese: Biểu tình phản đối Trung Quốc tại Việt Nam 2014) was a series of anti-China protests followed by unrest and riots across Vietnam in May 2014, in response to China deploying an oil rig in a disputed region of the South China Sea.
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