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Uprising at Arizona State Prison at Kingman, Arizona

imageByperilousJuly 1, 2015
Uprising at Arizona State Prison at Kingman, Arizona
July 1 - July 4, 2015: Prisoners at the Arizona State Prison in Kingman, a private prison run by the Management & Training Corporation (MTC), riot for three days following an attack on guards. Following the riots, the governor of Arizona announces that the state would be

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Uprising at Central North Correctional Centre, Ontario

imageByperilousJune 19, 2015
Uprising at Central North Correctional Centre, Ontario
June 19, 2015: Forty-five inmates in two separate units of a maximum-security facility in Penetanguishene engaged in a six-hour long uprising causing an estimated $50,000 in damage, according to the president of the union that represents prison employees.

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Attack on Guards at Rikers Island, New York

imageByperilousJune 17, 2015
Attack on Guards at Rikers Island, New York
June 17, 2015: Two men held in the Anna M. Kross Center, the mental health facility at Rikers Island, attacked 6 guards before being subdued with pepper spray.

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Hunger Strike at Eloy Detention Center, Arizona

imageByperilousJune 13, 2015
Hunger Strike at Eloy Detention Center, Arizona
June 13, 2015: Over 200 detainees sat down in the recreation yard of the Eloy Detention Center and engaged in a hunger strike in response to guard abuse and lack of medical services.

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Mother’s Day Uprising at Tecumseh Correctional, Nebraska

imageByperilousMay 10, 2015
Mother’s Day Uprising at Tecumseh Correctional, Nebraska
May 10, 2015: Prisoners of all races take control of multiple housing units in the prison (including staff­ offices), fight off­ guards together, set fires, destroy walls and other infrastructure. They use office phones to call their mothers and the media and chant “Hands

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Disturbance at SCI Houtzdale, Pennsylvania

imageByperilousApril 28, 2015
Disturbance at SCI Houtzdale, Pennsylvania
April 28, 2015: According to charges filed by a Pennsylvania State Trooper, a group of prisoners at SCI Houtzdale attacked guards after one guard tried to break up a fight between prisoners in the prison yard.

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Attack on Guards at Arizona State Prison Complex, Florence, Arizona

imageByperilousApril 9, 2015
April 9, 2015: As many as 30 prisoners attack guards after they perceive an act of disrespect on their part. Seven guards are injured, one seriously. Seven months later, the Arizona Department of Corrections releases a video of the event.

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Work Stoppage and Hunger Strike at Karnes County Residential Center, Texas

imageByperilousMarch 30, 2015
Work Stoppage and Hunger Strike at Karnes County Residential Center, Texas
March 30, 2015 - (end date unknown): Around 78 detained immigrant mothers, most of whom were seeking asylum from Central American countries, signed a letter demanding their release and launched a work and hunger strike as well as a boycott of the facility.

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Hunger Strike at Regina Provincial Correctional Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada

imageByperilousMarch 25, 2015
Hunger Strike at Regina Provincial Correctional Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada
March 25, 2015: Following another hunger strike earlier in the month, approximately 12 prisoners launch a second hunger strike to express issues with the fulfillment of their previous demands for religious freedom, access to exercise and other issues. The hunger strike lasts

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Disturbance at Illinois Youth Center at Kewanee

imageByperilousMarch 24, 2015
March 24, 2015: According to the correctional officers union, seventeen inmates at the juvenile detention center smashed out windows at the facility and threatened one correctional officer with shards of glass.

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