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Violence at Lee Correctional Leaves 7 Prisoners Dead

ByperilousApril 14, 2018

April 14- April 15, 2018: Guards refuse to intervene for hours while fights spread to multiple units of the facility. Due to broken locks on cell doors, prisoners are unable to lock themselves in cells for protection. In the end, seven prisoners are dead, some as a result of

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Hunger Strike at Wynne Unit, Huntsville, TX

ByperilousApril 11, 2018

April 11- April 20, 2018: Prisoners launch a hunger strike in protest of a lockdown at the prison. According to prison officials, 50 prisoners refuse meals at the height of the 10 day hunger strike.

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Escape at Gateway to Independence Juvenile Center, Tennessee

ByperilousApril 9, 2018

April 9, 2018: Two teachers were injured after an altercation at Gateway to Independence, formerly known as Woodland Hills Youth Detention Center. The altercation led to one juvenile escaping the facility.

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Protest at Maui Community Correctional Center, Hawaii

ByperilousApril 9, 2018

April 9, 2018: Prisoners refuse orders to return to their cells. According to reports, they "wanted to express their frustration with the phone system, a damaged television in the common area of their module, and the absence of rice with some of their meals over the past few

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Hunger Strike at Polk Correctional Institution, North Carolina

ByperilousApril 1, 2018

April, 2018 (exact dates unknown): According to a letter from prisoner Willie James Dean-Bey to the San Francisco Bay View, prisoners in the H-Con housing unit went on hunger strike and released a list of demands, including access to food and hygiene items, newspapers,

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Hunger Strike at Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla

ByperilousApril 1, 2018

April 1-12, 2018: Prisoners begin a hunger strike on Easter Sunday that lasts at least 11 days and involves at least 1,315 prisoners--including prisoners in all six units of the prison's West Complex. All prisoners in the West Complex who are not "elderly or infirm"

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Uprising at Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina

ByperilousMarch 23, 2018

March 23, 2018: Prisoners overpower a guard and take control of a dorm. They hold it for an hour and a half. No damage is reported to the prison, nor injuries to prisoners or staff.

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Uprising at Arizona State Prison Complex, Yuma

ByperilousMarch 1, 2018

March 1-2, 2018: After guards beat an intoxicated prisoner, at least 600 prisoners participate in an uprising in which they attack guards, set fires, throw rocks, attack prison infrastructure and break into the healthcare unit. One prisoner, Adam Coppa, is shot and killed

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Hunger Strike at East Mississippi Correctional Facility

ByperilousMarch 1, 2018

March 1 - 5, 2018: Prisoners at a private prison run by the Management & Training Corp., launch a hunger strike in the lead-up to a trial in U.S. District court of a class-action lawsuit brought by the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of prisoners over

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Work Stoppage and Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center, Washington

ByperilousFebruary 7, 2018

February 7, 2018: Following a work stoppage by detainees employed in the kitchen on February 7, over 120 detainees launch a hunger strike on February 9 in protest of abuses by guards, food quality issues and other conditions. In retaliation for the hunger strike, guards beat

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