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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 ...
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.
Prison riots in North America (2 C, 1 P) O. Prison riots in Oceania (1 C) S. Prison riots in South America (3 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 30 October 2024 ...
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.
Before the day of the riot, there were the days and weeks leading up the riot — a volatile time filled with rumors, violence and red flags. More: Ceremony honors those who died in 1978 Pontiac ...
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 ...
Reports say signs of a riot were incoming as inmates had heard chatter the day before that pavilion 2 would be the target. [ 1 ] The attack was launched at 7pm local time on 13 November 2021, when prisoners from pavilions 3, 6 and 12 (all controlled by the gang Los Choneros ), tried to enter pavilion 2 of the prison, where 700 inmates were kept ...
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.