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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.
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.
During the Republic of Vietnam, the area nearby Cà Mau was a stronghold (Vietnamese: Chiến khu cách mạng) for the Việt Cộng, a Hanoi-backed guerrilla group fighting the United States Army and the South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam War. After 1975, Cà Mau was made the administrative seat and the governmental center of Minh ...
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons. ... February 2, 2024 at 12:38 PM.
The prison become the area's largest employer. [2] On October 25, 2003, a 90-minute riot broke out over viewing the 2003 World Series, involving 150 prisoners nearing release fighting predominantly along racial lines. Inmates attacked each other with kitchen knives, meat cleavers, broom handles, dust pans, rocks, pipes, crutches and fire ...
The 400 Mawozo gang operates in the Croix-des-Bouquets area and has influence at its prison, according to Insight Crime. [14] Chérizier, who took responsibility for the surge in violence, said his goal was to capture Haitian government officials, including the police chief. [15] Over 12 people have been killed in the conflict. [12]
The two countries also signed a deal on Tuesday for Vietnam to supply the Philippines with 1.5 million to 2 million metric tons (1.6 to 2.2 million U.S. tons) of rice each year at affordable prices.
Sơn Trà, Bình Sơn District, Quảng Ngãi, South Vietnam 88 Viet Cong: Thanh Phong massacre (disputed) February 25, 1969 Thanh Phong village of Bến Tre Province, South Vietnam 21 U.S. Navy: Son Thang massacre: February 19, 1970 Son Thang, South Vietnam 16 killed U.S. Marine Corps: Thạnh Mỹ massacre: June 11, 1970