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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.
A statewide warning was issued to every California prison after roughly 200 prisoners were involved in an attack on officers at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe on Wednesday, officials said.
Two weeks before the riot, two corrections officers were assaulted on 4 Gallery of the North Cellhouse, Bailey said. He and another guard were called to help quell the situation.
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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]
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The deadly melee broke out on Tuesday afternoon at the Ely State Prison in a rural mining town some 250 miles (400 km) north of Las Vegas. Nevada prison fight leaves three inmates dead, nine ...
On November 17, 1970, the idea for a prisoners union was born at a press conference held by former prisoners in support of the 1970 Folsom Prison strike. [2]: 202 Its constitution argued that prisoners were an enslaved social class with the right to collective struggle for better conditions: [2]: 202–3