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Attack on Guards at Youth Correctional Center, North Dakota

imageByperilousJanuary 28, 2018
Attack on Guards at Youth Correctional Center, North Dakota
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

imageByperilousJanuary 16, 2018
Uprising at Santa Cruz County Jail, California
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

imageByperilousJanuary 15, 2018
Operation Push: Florida Work Stoppage
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

imageByperilousJanuary 8, 2018
Uprising at Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center, Ohio
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

imageByperilousJanuary 6, 2018
Hunger Strike at Edmonton Remand Centre, Alberta, Canada
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

imageByperilousDecember 28, 2017
Mass Escape from Boyd County Detention Center, Kentucky
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

imageByperilousDecember 25, 2017
Hunger Strike at Allred Unit, Texas
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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Thanksgiving Attack on Correctional Captain, Rikers Island, New York

imageByperilousNovember 23, 2017
Thanksgiving Attack on Correctional Captain, Rikers Island, New York
November 23, 2017: Prisoners carry out a premeditated, retaliatory attack on a corrections captain following the captain's alleged use of excessive force.

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Attack on Guards at Five Points Correctional Facility, New York

imageByperilousNovember 3, 2017
Attack on Guards at Five Points Correctional Facility, New York
November 3, 2017: In a series of incidents, guards transporting a group of prisoners were attacked while intervening in fights. Six officers were treated for injuries.

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Hunger Strikes in Maricopa County Jails, Arizona

imageByperilousOctober 31, 2017
Hunger Strikes in Maricopa County Jails, Arizona
Late October 2017: Around 23 prisoners held in the Maricopa County jails went on hunger strike to protest poor food quality.

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