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Uprising at Holman Correctional, Alabama – Part 2

ByperilousMarch 14, 2016

March 14, 2016: Despite lockdown from Friday night's uprising, prisoners attack guards again and retake the dorm on Sunday. Again, emergency response teams armed with shotguns regain control of the unit. Rebels are restrained and taken to the basketball courts, where they

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Uprising at Holman Correctional, Alabama – Part 1

ByperilousMarch 12, 2016

March 11-12, 2016: Prison staff intervene in a conflict between two groups of prisoners. The prisoners respond by attacking the guards. Warden Carter Davenport is stabbed during the altercation. Staff retreat and prisoners destroy a large amount of prison property, sending

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Hunger Strike at Regina Provincial Correctional Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada

ByperilousMarch 2, 2016

March 2, 2016 - (end date unknown): Sixteen prisoners in the prison's high security unit 2D1 launched a hunger strike in protest of extended periods of lockdown. One of the prisoners, Forrest Pelletier, spoke to the CBC, explaining that as pre-trial detainees, the prisoners

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Uprising at Regina Provincial Correctional Center, Saskatchewan, Canada

ByperilousFebruary 22, 2016

February 22, 2016: A group of prisoners participate in an uprising causing an estimated $55,000 in damage in order to demand that other members of their organization be put on the same range. The prisoners signed a note demanding transfer of other members of the Saskatchewan

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Uprising at Oahu Community Correctional Center, Hawaii

ByperilousFebruary 11, 2016

February 11, 2016: At least 15 prisoners light fires, tear bunks from the walls and flood the unit’s second floor with water by blocking up toilets and sinks at the state's largest prison. Officials claim that the riot is the biggest the state has seen in 30 years. According

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Hunger Strike at Regina Correctional Centre, Saskatchewan, Canada

ByperilousJanuary 25, 2016

January 25, 2016: Regina Correctional Centre prisoners staged at least three meal refusals since November of last year. This comes in response to the privatization of food service last year, which prisoners say has degraded the quality of the food.

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Escape from Orange County Central Men’s Jail

ByperilousJanuary 22, 2016

January 22, 2016: Three men escaped from the Orange County Central Men's Jail and are the subject of a significant manhunt. Two of the men remained on the run for a week and made it all the way to San Francisco before they were finally caught.

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Food Strike at Regina Provincial Correctional Centre, Saskatchewan

ByperilousJanuary 7, 2016

January 7, 2016: Between 100 and 150 prisoners at Regina Provincial Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan refused meals for 24 hours to protest the quality of food they were being served by a private company called Compass Group of Canada.

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