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  2. Prison riot - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. California Institution for Men - Wikipedia

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    The riot broke out at 8:20 p.m. Although other races were involved the riot was mainly between Hispanic inmates and African American inmates. The prison's damages were severe, bathroom sinks ripped off the walls, fires broke out, and 50 inmates were taken to nearby hospitals. The riot caused a lockdown of the prison and six others in the area. [24]

  4. Pretoria Central Prison - Wikipedia

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    The complex comprises six correctional centres, including the notorious C Max, Pretoria Local Prison, and a women's prison. [2] The new name is the same as the street name (renamed in the previous year), with both now bearing the name of Kgosi Mampuru , a 19th-century local chief who resisted Boer rule and was subsequently hanged in 1883.

  5. California State Prison, Sacramento - Wikipedia

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    California State Prison, Sacramento (SAC) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Folsom, in Sacramento County, California. The facility is also referenced as Sacramento State Prison , CSP-Sacramento , CSP-SAC , and occasionally, New Folsom or New Folsom Prison which was its official name prior to October 1992.

  6. Christopher Collings set for execution Tuesday in Missouri ...

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    Collings is set to die by lethal injection for the murder of 9-year-old Rowan Ford in the tiny southwestern Missouri village of Stella on Nov. 3, 2007.

  7. Millhaven Institution - Wikipedia

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    [27] [28] In 1974, a prison riot at Millhaven lasted two days and saw 166 cells destroyed by the prisoners. [29] At the time of the 1974 riot, a guard told a journalist from The Toronto Star: "It is a place where you try to survive. That includes the cons, the guards and the brass who run the place". [29]

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  9. Attica Prison riot - Wikipedia

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    The Attica Prison riot took place at the state prison in Attica, New York; it started on September 9, 1971, and ended on September 13 with the highest number of fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings. Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees), all but one guard and three inmates were ...