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Disturbance at The Meadows Behavioral Health Treatment Facility, Pennsylvania

ByperilousFebruary 26, 2011

February 26, 2011 (exact date unknown): An unknown number of juveniles participated in a disturbance that injured several employees and a state trooper. Five juveniles between the ages of 13 and 17 were arrested following the incident and charged with aggravated assault,

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Attack on Guards, Varner Unit, Arkansas

ByperilousFebruary 26, 2011

February 26, 2011: Following a 1 AM cell-phone sweep by 100 officers prisoners attacked a guard, who raised an alarm. Four officers who responded to the alarm were then attacked by a group of twenty prisoners, according to the officers. Three suffered minor injuries and one,

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Attack on Guards, New Folsom, California

ByperilousFebruary 8, 2011

February 8, 2011: Shortly after noon, an unknown number of prisoners attacked four guards who were checking prisoners for weapons. The guards were taken to the hospital and treated for minor injuries.

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Uprising at Eastman Youth Detention Center, Georgia

ByperilousJanuary 30, 2011

January 30, 2011: Five juveniles attacked a guard with a broomstick while others set fires and about refused to return to their cells. About 60 inmates were reported to participate in the uprising, causing officers from five counties to respond. The uprising lasted about an

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Food Strike at California Men’s Colony

ByperilousJanuary 24, 2011

January 24 - 26, 2011: One thousand prisoners refuse meals in a hunger strike in protest of austerity measures at the prison, including cuts to programming and routine lockdowns associated with under-staffing.

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Disturbance at DOVE Academy for Girls, Florida

ByperilousJanuary 23, 2011

January 23, 2011: Twelve are charged after a disturbance at DOVE Academy that led to one staff member being hospitalized and some furniture being damaged at the facility

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Lucasville Uprising Survivors’ Hunger Strike, Ohio

ByperilousJanuary 3, 2011

January 3, 2011: Three of the survivors of the Lucasville Uprising go on a 15-day hunger strike to protest the extreme conditions of their solitary confinement. The men were demanding conditions equal to that of other Ohio death row prisoners, namely contact with family,

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