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Free Alabama Movement May Day Strike

ByperilousMay 1, 2016

May 1-11, 2016: In solidarity with Texas prisoners, and in response to ADOC plan to build four "mega prisons" to quell rebellions, Free Alabama Movement calls for a strike and action at the state legislature. The ADOC budget request fails on the second day of the strike,

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Uprising at Sarpy County Jail, Nebraska

ByperilousApril 29, 2016

April 29, 2016: Four prisoners "become unruly" damaging about 11 sprinklers in the holding cell, flooding it and the public defenders' office below. The water causes approximately $100,000 in damage. The prisoners are charged with criminal mischief and terroristic threats,

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Hunger Strike and Protest at Immigrant Detention Center in Georgia

ByperilousApril 21, 2016

April 21 - December 21, 2016 (exact dates uncertain): Between (at least) April and December of 2016, dozens of detainees at the Stewart Detention Center launch rolling hunger strikes in protest of their confinement and treatment by ICE.

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Protest at York County Jail, Maine

ByperilousApril 13, 2016

April 13, 2016: At least half of the 79 prisoners in general population refuse to go to their cells in a "non-violent protest" of recent policy changes at the jail. Initially "mischaracterized as a riot" according to Sheriff William King, the protest brings emergency

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Michigan Food Strike Spreads to Cotton Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousApril 12, 2016

April 12, 2016: The food strike started on 3/20 spreads to a third facility in Michigan with at least 660 prisoners refusing meals at Cotton, as reported by the prison administration.

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Uprising at Perry Correctional Institution, South Carolina

ByperilousApril 11, 2016

April 11, 2016: Prisoners take control of a 180-person dorm during a 5 hour uprising, holding a guard hostage and assaulting him. While staff attempts to regain control of the unit, a total of three guards are stabbed.

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Rolling Work Strikes in Prisons Throughout Texas

ByperilousApril 4, 2016

April 4-20, 2016: Prisoners call for a strike across Texas, spreading the word to the outside primarily through Incarcerated Worker's Organizing Committee (IWOC) networks. At least 4 prisons participate in the rolling work strikes. The announcement of the nationally

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Attack on Guards at Columbia Correctional Institution, Florida

ByperilousApril 4, 2016

April 4, 2016: A corrections officer at the Columbia Correctional Institution was stabbed and several others injured in an ambush by prisoners.

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Michigan Food Strike Spreads to Chippewa Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousMarch 26, 2016

March 26, 2016: The food strike started on 3/20 spreads to a second facility with at least 800 prisoners refusing meals at Chippewa, as reported by the prison administration.

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Michigan Food Strike Begins at Kinross Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousMarch 20, 2016

March 20-21, 2016: Prisoners organize a food strike to protest poor food quality by the privatized food contractor Trinity Services Group just eight months after Trinity takes over the role from Aramark Correctional Services. According to a prisoner at Kinross who

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