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Attack on Guards at Tucker Maximum Security Unit, Arkansas – Part 1

ByperilousJuly 22, 2017

July 22, 2017: Three prisoners attack guards while they were attempting to handcuff another prisoner. Then "at least three prisoners" escaped from individual holding units in a recreation area. Corrections officers fire "warning shots" with live ammunition in order to regain

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Uprising at Great Plains Correctional Facility, Oklahoma

ByperilousJuly 10, 2017

July 10, 2017: Armed with baseball bats and iron pipes, 400 prisoners take control of an entire building and two recreation yards for eight hours. Taking two guards hostage, they refuse to return to their cells. Guards use pepper spray and stun grenades. An unspecified

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Uprising at El Dorado Correctional Facility, Kansas–Part 2

ByperilousJune 29, 2017

June 29, 2017: When prisoners are released from lockdown following their rebellion earlier in the week, they immediately begin a protest of prison conditions. Around 120 prisoners occupy the prison yard and refuse orders to return to their cells. They break into an office

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Uprising at El Dorado Correctional Facility, Kansas–Part 1

ByperilousJune 24, 2017

June 24, 2017: 70 prisoners, finding the doors unexpectedly unlocked, leave their housing unit and refuse orders to return. Eventually, prisoners return to their cells, but place objects in the way of the doors, preventing them from securing. They make weapons from broom and

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Uprising at Gulf Correctional Institution Annex, Florida

ByperilousJune 21, 2017

June 21, 2017: Prisoners take over several dorms for around half an hour, injuring seven guards in a "major disturbance." According to the prison, the incident involves more than twenty prisoners and is a result of "tension among gangs." One prisoner is reported injured.

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Uprising at Washington County Jail, Texas

ByperilousJune 17, 2017

June 17, 2017: At least 12 prisoners rush a guard at their cell door and take control of the area beyond. After guards retake the block, prisoners express various grievances related to their housing arrangements and classification status.

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Uprising at Trenton Correctional Institute, South Carolina

ByperilousJune 14, 2017

June 14, 2017: After a guard confiscates a prisoner's cell phone, other prisoners rally around him and fight guards. Prisoners destroy parts of the dorm and set fires in the prison yard, causing "significant damage."

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Attack on Guards and Escape From Transport Bus, Georgia

ByperilousJune 13, 2017

June 13, 2017: Two inmates escaped from a transport bus after overpowering a guard and using his gun to fatally shoot both prison guards on the bus.

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Uprising at Regina Provincial Correctional Center, Saskatchewan, Canada

ByperilousJune 8, 2017

June 8, 2017: At least 13 prisoners took part in an uprising, causing at estimated $100,000 in damage to the facility. Following the uprising, 4 prisoners were transferred to other facilities and one prisoner and one guard were treated for minor injuries.

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Hunger Strike at Folsom State Prison, California

ByperilousMay 25, 2017

May 25, 2017: Prisoners in the administrative segregation unit launch a hunger strike in protest of conditions which they claim "constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the U.S. Constitution."

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