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Uprising at Larned Correctional, Kansas

ByperilousNovember 6, 2018

November 6, 2018: A series of fights led to a riot in all five units of the Central Facility, leading to "extensive damage" to all of them. Kansas Department of Correction spokesman Samir Arif stated that “the fights were contained to the living unit pods. Some inmates were

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Two Uprisings by Idaho Prisoners at Eagle Pass Correctional Facility, Texas

ByperilousNovember 5, 2018

November 5-13, 2018: Prisoners from Idaho housed in a private prison in Texas participate in two disturbances in just over a week.

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Uprising at California Rehabilitation Center

ByperilousOctober 2, 2018

October 2, 2018: Prisoners led a brief uprising in protest of a new policy that integrated yard time for prisoners in segregation and those in general population. Prisoners set fire to a mattress and started another fire in a bathroom. The uprising was quickly subdued by

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Uprising at Oklahoma County Jail

ByperilousSeptember 23, 2018

September 23, 2018: Several prisoners escaped from their cells on the 12th floor of the jail and destroyed jail infrastructure including surveillance cameras, sprinkler heads and ceiling tiles.

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Disturbance at Palm Beach Youth Academy, Florida

ByperilousSeptember 21, 2018

September 21, 2018: At least six juvenile detainees reportedly grabbed staff who were trying to take another boy back to his cell. During the melee, the boys flipped tables and threw chairs, threatened staff and destroyed property. Specific details remain unclear. Following

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Hamilton Correctional Annex, Florida: 100 Prisoners “Become Noncompliant”

ByperilousSeptember 7, 2018

September 7, 2018: Staff mobilize security teams and law enforcement from the surrounding area to contain prisoners who "became noncompliant" on the recreation yard. News helicopters captured images of prisoners, dressed in white, in the yard confronted by a line of guards.

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Two Escape from Gallia County Jail, Ohio

ByperilousAugust 31, 2018

August 31, 2018: Two women escaped from Gallia County Jail after breaching the security system.

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2018 National Prison Strike: Hunger Strike at Sussex II State Prison, Virginia

ByperilousAugust 28, 2018

August 28-29, 2018 and September 8-9, 2018: Prisoner Uhuru B. Rowe and "a few other prisoners" engaged in two "24 hour fast[s]" in solidarity with the national prison strike.

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2018 National Prison Strike: Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, Indiana

ByperilousAugust 27, 2018

August 27, 2018: According to the group IDOC Watch, "Several inmates in the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility are initiating a hunger strike in protest of their already starvation-level meal portions, their lack of access to basic necessities

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2018 National Prison Strike: Northwest Detention Center, Washington

ByperilousAugust 24, 2018

August 24-27, 2018: According to the group Northwest Detention Center Resistance, approximately 200 detainees participate in a hunger strike "in response to the call for a national prison strike in the U.S."

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