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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 ...
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.
Trương Văn Cam, known by the sobriquet Năm Cam (April 22, 1947 – June 3, 2004) was a notorious Vietnamese mobster who is often called the "Godfather" of Vietnam. Known for building and running a criminal enterprise revolving around gambling dens, hotels, racketeering, extortion, loan sharking and restaurants that fronted for brothels, during his heyday, Năm Cam was considered one of the ...
Phan Bội Châu (Vietnamese: [faːn ɓôjˀ cəw]; 26 December 1867 – 29 October 1940), born Phan Văn San, courtesy name Hải Thụ (later changed to Sào Nam), was a pioneer of 20th century Vietnamese nationalism.
Võ Thị Thắng was born on 10 December 1945 in what is now Tân Bửu Commune, Bến Lức District, Long An Province, Vietnam.She was the youngest of eight siblings, and her family members were supporters of the North Vietnamese government.
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.
"Tiến Quân Ca" (lit. "The Song of the Marching Troops") is the national anthem of Vietnam . The march was written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944, and was adopted as the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1946 (as per the 1946 constitution ) and subsequently the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 following the ...
Jul. 25—Fifty years ago on Thursday, what some consider the most destructive riot in U.S. history, erupted at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. July 27, 1973, started as a regular day at ...