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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.
During the riots, prisoners set blocks of prison cells on fire, stabbed each other with knives, or were beaten. [1] Other prisoners used rifles and iron pins as weapons. [4] In addition, some prisoners were thrown from the second story of buildings. [4] Two of the 20 prisoners died at a local hospital, while the remainder died in the prison. [8]
Two inmates were reportedly injured during the chaos, but authorities had retaken the prison by about 8 a.m., WWNY reported. In a brief social media message Thursday, the state corrections ...
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 September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot occurred at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 28 September 2021. At least 123 inmates were killed and several others were injured in the riot that took place in that prison. It was the deadliest prison fight in the country's history [1] [2] and one of the deadliest in Latin American ...
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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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