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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.
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.
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.
The 2018 U.S. prison strike was a series of work stoppages and hunger strikes [1] in prisons across the United States from August 21 to September 9, 2018. [2] It was one of the largest prison strikes in US history. [3] [2] Striking workers demanded improved living conditions, an end to forced prison labor, and other prison reforms.
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The deadly melee broke out on Tuesday afternoon at the Ely State Prison in a rural mining town some 250 miles (400 km) north of Las Vegas. Nevada prison fight leaves three inmates dead, nine ...
The 2022 Battle of al-Hasakah was a large-scale Islamic State attack and prison riot aimed at freeing arrested fighters of the Islamic State from al-Sina'a prison in the Ghuwayran (Geweran [19]) area of Al-Hasakah, Syria, which resulted in a SDF military victory and an ISIS prison break, with hundreds of prisoners, including important Emirs, being freed from captivity.
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 ...