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Chí Hòa Prison (Vietnamese: Khám Chí Hòa or Nhà Tù Chí Hòa) is a functioning Vietnamese prison located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The prison is an octagonal building on a 7-hectare site [ 1 ] consisting of detention rooms, jail cells, prison walls, watchtowers, facilities and prisoner's farmlands.
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.
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 ...
[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]
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.
The death toll could rise in the coming hours and days
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It was a particularly hot day in Pontiac. At the prison, a riot would break out involving more than 1,000 inmate. Three men — Lt. William Thomas, Correctional Officer Stanley Cole and ...