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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.
[1] [2] [3] It was later revealed that the prison only had 33 guards, with the municipality admitting this was nowhere near enough to ensure security. [4] A new structure at the prison was being built to house the excess prisoners, [ 5 ] though prison officials deny there was overcrowding [ 1 ] and many inmates were held in old container units.
Prison riots in Brazil that began on May 26, 2019, resulted in the deaths of at least 112 people as of July 29, 2019. The riots occurred at several prisons in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas. Rival factions of the illicit Brazilian drug trade were responsible for the fighting. [1]
The Women's Center for Social Adaptation is a women's prison located in Támara, [2] Francisco Morazán Department. [3] At the time, the prison housed between 800 [2] and 900 [4] inmates, double its rated capacity. [2] The prison has been an ongoing scene of cross-gang conflict, particularly between the 18th Street gang and MS-13, deadly ...
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[2] Of particular concern to the Federal Bureau of Prisons during the riots was the whereabouts of inmate Thomas Silverstein, who was serving a life sentence at USP Atlanta in an isolation cell, following his murder of Federal Prison Guard Merle E. Clutts, at USP Marion, in October 1983. The Cubans ultimately were able to drug Silverstein, who ...