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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.
About 200 prisoners were involved in a riot at a Riverside County prison that sparked a statewide warning to all state prisons.
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 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 24 April 1972, a Royal Commission under Justice J.W. Swackhammer presented a report to Goyer that blamed the riot on an overcrowded and aging prison along with the federal government's policy of ending privileges such as sports events and sports teams, saying the policy of forcing prisoners to stay in their cells for 16 hours a day was the ...
The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history.
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 ...
Due to the high number of victims, the massacre is considered the bloodiest prison riot in the history of Ecuador. [13] Two months later, the November 2021 Guayaquil prison riot occurred at Litoral Penitentiary on 13 November 2021, with at least 68 prisoners being killed. [14] In 2023, at least twelve died in April, [15] and at least eighteen ...