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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.
The riot broke out at 8:20 p.m. Although other races were involved the riot was mainly between Hispanic inmates and African American inmates. The prison's damages were severe, bathroom sinks ripped off the walls, fires broke out, and 50 inmates were taken to nearby hospitals. The riot caused a lockdown of the prison and six others in the area. [24]
Sussex I State Prison is a prison of the Virginia Department of Corrections located in unincorporated Sussex County, Virginia, [2] near Waverly. [3] It is adjacent to Sussex II State Prison, which lies to its northwest, just across Mussellwhite Drive. The prison, a maximum security facility, opened in May 1998. [4] It serves as an intake ...
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The prison was reopened in 1954 as CCI, an all-men's prison. [5] In 1985–1986, maximum and medium security facilities were added to it. [ 5 ] The Southern Maximum Security Complex at Tehachapi was "touted as the most advanced in the country", but was also "called a ' white elephant ' and a 'Cadillac' because it took so long to build and cost ...
California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Folsom, in Sacramento County, California. The facility is also referenced as Sacramento State Prison , CSP-Sacramento , CSP-SAC , and occasionally, New Folsom or New Folsom Prison which was its official name prior to October 1992.
Those claims led to the Capitol riot and unprecedented indictments of the former president in Washington, D.C., and the state of Georgia on charges that he conspired to steal the election from Joe ...
1959 – Tibetan riots against Chinese government, in Lhasa, Tibet Area, China, between March 10 to 21, this is the deadliest riot to take place in a single month and also the second deadliest riot to take place in a single year (after the 1947 Indian partition riots), a confirmed death toll of around 87,000 people.