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Hunger Strike at Sterling Correctional Facility, Colorado

ByperilousAugust 7, 2018

August 7, 2018: According to a letter from a prisoner received by the Denver Anarchist Black Cross and shared anonymously, at least 10 prisoners begin a hunger strike and release a list of demands.

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Vaughn 17 Hunger Strike at Sussex Correctional, Delaware

ByadminJuly 29, 2018

July 29-31, 2018: Fourteen of the eighteen prisoners charged in association with the February 2017 riot at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center stage a hunger strike in protest of their recreation time being cut. The prisoners, who had been transferred out of Vaughn

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Uprising at Cascade County Detention Center, Montana

ByperilousJuly 28, 2018

July 28, 2018: Five days after the Sheriff of Great Falls issued a memo warning of rising tensions and refusing to accept new inmates held on nonviolent crimes due to conditions of overcrowding, an uprising broke out in one of the jails housing pods. On Saturday morning, as

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Prisoners Hack JPay Tablets, Idaho

ByperilousJuly 27, 2018

July 27, 2018: Idaho prison officials say 364 inmates exploit a software vulnerability in the JPay tablets they use for email, music, and games to collectively transfer nearly a quarter million dollars into their accounts.

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Hunger Strike at Edmonton Remand Centre, Alberta

ByperilousJuly 23, 2018

July 23-30, 2018: More than 200 prisoners went on hunger strike in protest of a new policy restricting time outside of their cells. One week later, 14 prisoners continued refusing meals. The prisoners were protesting a new program called "tiered rotation" in which prisoners

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Hunger Strike at Bristol County House of Corrections, Massachusetts

ByperilousJuly 17, 2018

July 17-26, 2018: Approximately 60 immigrant detainees went on hunger strike on July 17 in protest of conditions in the part of the jail operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). When prisoners in the general population unit of the same jail heard of the hunger

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Uprising at Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center, Florida

ByperilousJuly 15, 2018

July 15, 2018: At least nine incarcerated teenagers participate in an uprising after taking keys to the common area from an officer. The prisoners fought guards with metal food trays and destroyed prison infrastructure. The prisoners held control of the prison for about a

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Hunger Strike and Encampment at Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma

ByperilousJuly 14, 2018

July 14-17, 2018: More than 40 detainees in pod A2 begin a hunger strike "to share the opinions of mistreatment that occur inside, and to ask for changes in ICE and GEO’s policies" the detainees say in a public statement. The hunger strike lasts four days. In early July,

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Uprising at Bannock County Jail, Idaho

ByperilousJuly 11, 2018

July 11, 2018: Twenty-seven prisoners at the Bannock County Jail participate in an uprising in which they destroy sprinkler systems and stop up their sinks and toilets to flood their cells. According to the Sheriff the riot was caused by conditions of severe overcrowding.

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Uprising at Marshall County Jail, Alabama

ByperilousJuly 11, 2018

July 11, 2018: Approximately 60 prisoners "physically engaged deputies and jail staff during a shakedown." The riot occurrs two days after a guard was arrested on charges of selling a contraband cell phone to a prisoner. Deputies call in for back up from neighboring counties

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