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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.
It was a particularly hot day in Pontiac. At the prison, a riot would break out involving more than 1,000 inmate. Three men — Lt. William Thomas, Correctional Officer Stanley Cole and ...
On Sunday evening, handmade knives were the weapon of choice at Lee in what The Associated Press said was the deadliest prison riot in the United States in 25 years.
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.
On 20 June 2023, a prison riot broke out in the Women's Center for Social Adaptation, [a] a women's prison located in Támara, Honduras, about 29 km (18 mi) northwest from Tegucigalpa, the nation's capital. The riot is suspected to be the result of a conflict between female members of the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs. [1]
[27] [28] In 1974, a prison riot at Millhaven lasted two days and saw 166 cells destroyed by the prisoners. [29] At the time of the 1974 riot, a guard told a journalist from The Toronto Star: "It is a place where you try to survive. That includes the cons, the guards and the brass who run the place". [29]
The death toll could rise in the coming hours and days
The 1989 Polish prison riots refers to an outbreak of violence, which took place at four maximum-security prisons [1] in northwestern Poland in late 1989. The riots were the result of political changes which had taken place in Poland in early and mid-1989 (see Polish Round Table Agreement , Polish legislative election, 1989 ).