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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 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.
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"
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.
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.
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In the state of Durango, 19 inmates were killed in the prison of Gómez Palacio on 25 August 2009; [21] in the same prison on 21 January 2010, about 23 inmates were killed in a brawl. [22] On 19 May 2011, a shooting inside a prison in Durango left 8 prisoners dead, [23] and on 15 November 2010 a group of gunmen threw a grenade inside the prison ...
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