2016 Archives - Perilous

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Food Strike at Baraga Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousDecember 27, 2016

December 27-28, 2016: About 80 prisoners at Baraga Correctional Facility in Michigan refused to go to the chow hall during meal time for at least two days in order to protest the quality and the quantity of food served to them by private contractor Trinity Services Group.

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Christmas Day Escape at Cocke County Jail Annex, Tennessee

ByperilousDecember 25, 2016

December 25, 2016: Six inmates escaped early on Christmas day by removing a toilet from a wall and climbing through the hole.

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Uprising at California Correctional Center, Susanville

ByperilousDecember 20, 2016

December 20-21, 2016: A riot involving at least a hundred prisoners breaks out in the medium security unit. Guards fire live ammunition at prisoners and one prisoner is shot.

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Uprising at Saskatchewan Penitentiary, Canada

ByperilousDecember 14, 2016

December 14, 2016: At least 185 prisoners refuse to attend their normally-scheduled activities and instead mask up, destroy surveillance cameras, erect barricades, set fires, destroy significant portions of the prison and smash a hole in the floor so they can move to

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Uprising at El Paso County Jail, Colorado

ByperilousNovember 21, 2016

November 21, 2016: Nine prisoners engaged in a five hour long standoff with guards after the Colorado jail switched it's food provider to Trinity Food Services, which prisoners complained was giving inadequate portions.

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Uprising at Neuse Correctional Institution, North Carolina

ByperilousOctober 23, 2016

October 23, 2016: Prisoners start fires in two buildings of the prison, break windows, damage dorms and attack two prison vehicles.

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Hunger Strike at Central East Correctional Centre, Ontario

ByperilousOctober 16, 2016

October 16-29, 2016: Immigrant detainees re-launch their hunger strike (which had ended in July) in protest of their placement in maximum security prisons, indefinite detention of immigrants and a variety of other grievances. The outside group End Immigration Detention

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Two-Week Hunger Strike at Santa Clara County Jail, California

ByperilousOctober 15, 2016

October 17-30, 2016: More than a hundred prisoners stage a two week hunger strike in protest of prison conditions. "Prisoners United of Silicon Valley" a group well-connected with local civil rights organizers leads the strike, coordinating with other California prisons and jails.

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Prison Guards Quit En Masse at Holman Correctional Facility, Alabama

ByperilousOctober 1, 2016

October 1, 2016: According to the Free Alabama Movement, Holman guards quit en masse. One guard is quoted as saying, "We’re tired of them playing games with y’all and our lives. It doesn’t make any sense. You be safe Lil Brother."