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Uprising at Central East Correctional Centre, Ontario

ByperilousFebruary 6, 2014

February 6, 2014: Kawartha Lakes Police responded with a heavy police presence to a disturbance at Central East Correctional Centre. According to prison officials, inmates in one unit of the prison reportedly started multiple small fires and damaged their cells and the unit

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Hunger Strike at Menard Correctional Center, Illinois

ByperilousJanuary 15, 2014

January 15-27 , 2014: After the shutdown of Tamms, Illinois supermax facility, long term solitary confinement prisoners are transferred to Menard Correctional, one of the state's oldest and least maintained facilities. About 15 of these prisoners launch a hunger strike to

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Hunger Strike at Westville Correctional Facility, Indiana

ByperilousJanuary 13, 2014

January 13-24, 2014: A group of prisoners launch a hunger strike in protest of nutritionally deficient cold sack lunches. The lunches are the result of cutbacks by Aramark. After ten days and a protest and media campaign by outside supproters, hot lunches resume. Prison

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Free Alabama Movement Strike

ByperilousJanuary 1, 2014

January 1-8, 2014: The Free Alabama Movement goes public with a work-stoppage against unpaid labor, sanitation issues and overcrowding. The protest lasts several days. According to the Free Alabama Movement, all of the 2,400 prisoners at both Holman and St Clair facilities

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Attack on Guards at Riverside County Jail, California

ByperilousDecember 29, 2013

December 19, 2013: Two deputies performing security checks were attacked by prisoners. When two additional deputies came to their aid, they were also attacked. According to the sheriff's department, the prisoners were attempting to escape.

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Hunger Strike at Potosi Correctional Facility, Missouri

ByperilousOctober 13, 2013

October 13, 2013: A group of 15 prisoners stage a week long hunger strike "to protest too much abuse, neglect, sanitation issues etc." At the launch, prisoners express their solidarity with the massive California hunger strike earlier in the year.

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Protest at Central East Correctional Centre, Ontario

ByperilousSeptember 20, 2013

September 20, 2013: About 200 immigrant detainees stage a protest and hunger strike in response to a recent mass transfer and the prison conditions that denied them access to their legal counsel, family visitation, and recreational programming. Due to the lack off

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Uprising at Avon Park Youth Academy, Florida

ByperilousAugust 17, 2013

August 17, 2013: A fight between two groups of juvenile detainees escalated into an uprising that destroyed 18 of facility's 20 buildings, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. The boys stole a guard's radio and all of the facility's golf carts and set a trash

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Attack on Guards at Arizona State Prison Complex – Winslow

ByperilousJuly 19, 2013

July 19, 2013: Two inmates attack a guard as she is escorting over 50 prisoners. The officers family believes the attack to be a response to the officer providing a drug tip to the department of corrections.

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California Prison Hunger Strike

ByperilousJuly 8, 2013

July 8 - September 5, 2013: Following more delays and slow response to 2011 hunger strikes, Pelican Bay prisoners start another hunger strike in California. Over 30,000 prisoners join in, including hundreds throughout the United States. This is the largest hunger strike in

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