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The Kaohsiung Prison riot was a hostage situation that occurred at Kaohsiung Prison in Taiwan starting 11 February 2015. Six inmates, whose ringleader was a member of Bamboo Union , [ 3 ] seized weapons, including assault rifles , and took the warden hostage for a 14-hour high-profile stand-off, which caught media attention nationwide.
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 ...
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The origin of the conflicts was back to the 15th century, when Vietnamese monarch Lê Thánh Tông (r. 1460 – 1497) started adopting the Ming-inspired Confucian reform over the country, [7] led the kingdom reached its height as a prosperity and regional superpower, its population expanded from 1.8 million in 1417 to 4.5 million people at the end of his reign.
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.
Tuc was held in Prison Camp K1 in Ha Nam Province. His arrest was after he and other activists hung a banner on an overpass in Hai Phong requesting the authorities to stop corruption, to defend the fatherland and to accept pluralism and a multi-party system. [13] Tuc served his full term and was released from prison in September 2012.
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 riot was allegedly sparked by a racial remark from an officer to an Indigenous prisoner. [1] [7] [8] The Arbour Report was unable to substantiate the claims but concluded that racial slurs were found to be congruent with the prison environment at the time. [1] Between April 22 and 26, conditions in segregation were tense and deteriorating.