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Rolling Work Strikes in Prisons Throughout Texas

ByperilousApril 4, 2016

April 4-20, 2016: Prisoners call for a strike across Texas, spreading the word to the outside primarily through Incarcerated Worker's Organizing Committee (IWOC) networks. At least 4 prisons participate in the rolling work strikes. The announcement of the nationally

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Attack on Guards at Columbia Correctional Institution, Florida

ByperilousApril 4, 2016

April 4, 2016: A corrections officer at the Columbia Correctional Institution was stabbed and several others injured in an ambush by prisoners.

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Michigan Food Strike Spreads to Chippewa Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousMarch 26, 2016

March 26, 2016: The food strike started on 3/20 spreads to a second facility with at least 800 prisoners refusing meals at Chippewa, as reported by the prison administration.

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Michigan Food Strike Begins at Kinross Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousMarch 20, 2016

March 20-21, 2016: Prisoners organize a food strike to protest poor food quality by the privatized food contractor Trinity Services Group just eight months after Trinity takes over the role from Aramark Correctional Services. According to a prisoner at Kinross who

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Uprising at Holman Correctional, Alabama – Part 2

ByperilousMarch 14, 2016

March 14, 2016: Despite lockdown from Friday night's uprising, prisoners attack guards again and retake the dorm on Sunday. Again, emergency response teams armed with shotguns regain control of the unit. Rebels are restrained and taken to the basketball courts, where they

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Uprising at Holman Correctional, Alabama – Part 1

ByperilousMarch 12, 2016

March 11-12, 2016: Prison staff intervene in a conflict between two groups of prisoners. The prisoners respond by attacking the guards. Warden Carter Davenport is stabbed during the altercation. Staff retreat and prisoners destroy a large amount of prison property, sending

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Hunger Strike at Regina Provincial Correctional Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada

ByperilousMarch 2, 2016

March 2, 2016 - (end date unknown): Sixteen prisoners in the prison's high security unit 2D1 launched a hunger strike in protest of extended periods of lockdown. One of the prisoners, Forrest Pelletier, spoke to the CBC, explaining that as pre-trial detainees, the prisoners

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Uprising at Regina Provincial Correctional Center, Saskatchewan, Canada

ByperilousFebruary 22, 2016

February 22, 2016: A group of prisoners participate in an uprising causing an estimated $55,000 in damage in order to demand that other members of their organization be put on the same range. The prisoners signed a note demanding transfer of other members of the Saskatchewan

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Uprising at Oahu Community Correctional Center, Hawaii

ByperilousFebruary 11, 2016

February 11, 2016: At least 15 prisoners light fires, tear bunks from the walls and flood the unit’s second floor with water by blocking up toilets and sinks at the state's largest prison. Officials claim that the riot is the biggest the state has seen in 30 years. According

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Hunger Strike at Regina Correctional Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada

ByperilousJanuary 25, 2016

January 25, 2016: Regina Correctional Centre prisoners staged at least three meal refusals since November of last year. This comes in response to the privatization of food service last year, which prisoners say has degraded the quality of the food.

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