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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.
Chí Hòa Prison (Vietnamese: Khám Chí Hòa or Nhà Tù Chí Hòa) is a functioning Vietnamese prison located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The prison is an octagonal building on a 7-hectare site [ 1 ] consisting of detention rooms, jail cells, prison walls, watchtowers, facilities and prisoner's farmlands.
However, the prison of this uprising was actually the holding cells of the police headquarters [2] at Centro de Coordinación Policial José Antonio Páez (PoliPáez). [3] A police document accessed by Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that the prison cells were designed to hold 60 prisoners, but actually held about 500. [ 4 ]
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.
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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 ...
Prison riots by country (7 C) G. Prison gang violence (11 P) M. Prison massacres (2 C, 40 P) U. Prison uprisings (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Prison riots"
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.