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Hunger Strike at East Mississippi Correctional Facility

ByperilousMarch 1, 2018

March 1 - 5, 2018: Prisoners at a private prison run by the Management & Training Corp., launch a hunger strike in the lead-up to a trial in U.S. District court of a class-action lawsuit brought by the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of prisoners over

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Work Stoppage and Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center, Washington

ByperilousFebruary 7, 2018

February 7, 2018: Following a work stoppage by detainees employed in the kitchen on February 7, over 120 detainees launch a hunger strike on February 9 in protest of abuses by guards, food quality issues and other conditions. In retaliation for the hunger strike, guards beat

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Hunger Strike at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison

ByperilousJanuary 30, 2018

January 30, 2018: Approximately eight inmates started a hunger strike in response to a number of grievances. These included lack of access to recreation time, food issues, sanitation issues, and lack of access to property.

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Attack on Guards at Youth Correctional Center, North Dakota

ByperilousJanuary 28, 2018

January 28, 2018: Four teenage detainees attacked guards and destroyed property in an alleged attempt to escape the facility.

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Uprising at Santa Cruz County Jail, California

ByperilousJanuary 16, 2018

January 16, 2018: Prisoners tie trip lines from ripped jail-cell sheets, cover their arms with socks, hide their faces with makeshift masks and arm themselves with soap, a radio, mop, books and bottles of liquid. The 26 men housed in the west-wing L Unit complained it was

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Operation Push: Florida Work Stoppage

ByperilousJanuary 15, 2018

January 15, 2018: Prisoners across the Florida prison system organized a work stoppage beginning on Martin Luther King Jr. day. The strikers issued demands and engaged in boycotts of commissary.

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Uprising at Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center, Ohio

ByperilousJanuary 8, 2018

January 8, 2018: At least 12 juvenile detainees between the ages of 14 and 16 took control of a pod and held it for more than three hours, destroying infrastructure, threatening guards and pouring soap on the floor. Initial estimates put the damage at $200,000 or more.

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Hunger Strike at Edmonton Remand Centre, Alberta, Canada

ByperilousJanuary 6, 2018

January 6-10, 2018: At least 55 prisoners at the Edmonton Remand Centre in Alberta, Canada launch a hunger strike to protest an increase in violent attacks on prisoners by corrections officers. The jail responds by placing all striking prisoners in isolation and taking away

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Mass Escape from Boyd County Detention Center, Kentucky

ByperilousDecember 28, 2017

December 28, 2017: Four prisoners escaped the detention center in the 10th escape from the facility since July, 2017 . Catlettsburg Police Chief Cameron Logan told WSAZ the prisoners changed their clothes before escaping and "followed the air conditioning duct to the roof

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Hunger Strike at Allred Unit, Texas

ByperilousDecember 25, 2017

Dec 25, 2017 - Jan 3, 2018: At least 48 prisoners in the administrative segregation unit stage a hunger strike which, according to prison officials, relates to demands regarding recreation time, food portions and the temperature of the prison. Also according to prison

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