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  2. Prison riot - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. November 2024 Guayaquil prison riot - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Riot in Riverside County prison sparks statewide warning - AOL

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    About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.

  5. 5 killed in Mexico prison riot. Authorities cite dispute ...

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    Five men were killed in a fight between inmates at a prison in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco, authorities said Friday. Four of the five inmates killed in the riot late Thursday were on ...

  6. September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot - Wikipedia

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    The September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot occurred at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 28 September 2021. At least 123 inmates were killed and several others were injured in the riot that took place in that prison. It was the deadliest prison fight in the country's history [1] [2] and one of the deadliest in Latin American ...

  7. 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot - Wikipedia

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    On 24 April 1972, a Royal Commission under Justice J.W. Swackhammer presented a report to Goyer that blamed the riot on an overcrowded and aging prison along with the federal government's policy of ending privileges such as sports events and sports teams, saying the policy of forcing prisoners to stay in their cells for 16 hours a day was the ...

  8. Altamira prison brawl - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Fifty years ago: 1973 riot erupts at Oklahoma State Penitentiary

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    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 ...