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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 prison riots began a day after 21 people were killed in the unrest that ensued after the judiciary confirmed the victory of presidential candidate Daniel Chapo on Monday.
In the summer of 1968 two of the largest prison rebellions of the war took place in Vietnam, both led by Black soldiers. On August 16, at the overcrowded Da Nang Marine brig, a scuffle between guards and inmates escalated into a riot.
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.
A prison riot in Mozambique’s capital Maputo left 33 people dead and 15 injured, the country’s police general commander Bernardino Rafael said on Wednesday. About 1,534 people escaped from the ...
The riot, which the Associated Press reported appears to be the deadliest episode of violence inside a women’s prison in Central America since 41 people were killed at a shelter in Guatemala ...
May 11: Anti-China protests started in Hanoi, Da Nang, Can Tho, and Ho Chi Minh City. The size and number of protests were unprecedented as the government took the unusual step of permitting street protests to show its displeasure with Beijing. [13] May 12: Workers in a Bình Dương industrial park went on strike to join the anti-China protest.
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