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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.
It was opened in 1956 to replace Charlestown State Prison, the oldest prison in the nation at that time. MCI-Cedar Junction is one of two (the other one being Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center ) maximum security prisons for male offenders in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
In 1985, he was serving his sentence in Folsom State Prison. [1] In January 2009, Pinell lost his ninth bid for parole, while at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California. His prison term was extended by another 15 years. [22] On August 12, 2015, Pinell, aged 70, was killed in a prison riot at New Folsom Prison. [26]
On February 1, 1985, a riot took place at the Pendleton Correctional Facility, then still known as the Indiana Reformatory. An inmate, Lincoln Love, who also referred to himself as Lokmar Yazid Abdul Wadood and passed away in 2020 while serving a sentence for involvement with the riot, [3] [4] was badly beaten by correctional officers after he refused to vacate his cell during a weapons check ...
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A prison riot at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina, United States occurred on April 15, 2018. Starting as a prison cell robbery, violence between prison gangs intensified into a full-blown riot leading to the death of seven prisoners. It was the most violent prison riot in the United States within the last 25 years.
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2010 – Prison riot in Quebec, Canada, 2 killed. [172] 2010 – Riots in Indian Kashmir, 50 people killed in seven weeks of clashes with Indian forces. [173] [174] 2010 – Riots in Karachi, Pakistan, 90 dead. [175] [176] 2010 – Prison riot in Mexico, 14 dead. [177] 2010 – Prison riot in Kazakhstan, at least 2 killed, 80 injured. [178]