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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
