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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.
These four former correctional officers were recognized at a remembrance ceremony for the 1978 riot at Pontiac Correctional Center. The officers are, from left, Richard Jones, Kelly Jones, Tom ...
The Kaohsiung Prison riot was a hostage situation that occurred at Kaohsiung Prison in Taiwan starting 11 February 2015. Six inmates, whose ringleader was a member of Bamboo Union , [ 3 ] seized weapons, including assault rifles , and took the warden hostage for a 14-hour high-profile stand-off, which caught media attention nationwide.
A prison riot at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina, United States occurred on April 15, 2018. Starting as a prison cell robbery, violence between prison gangs intensified into a full-blown riot leading to the death of seven prisoners. It was the most violent prison riot in the United States within the last 25 years.
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]
At least 30 people were identified as having directly participated in the riot, officials said. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and ...
On 10 February 2016, a prison riot broke out at the Topo Chico prison near Monterrey, in northern Mexico. [5] 49 inmates were killed during the riot and ensuing fire.The riot was the most deadly in Mexican penal history, surpassing the death toll of the 2012 Apodaca prison riot. [6]
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.