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Hunger Strike at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison

imageByperilousJanuary 30, 2018
Hunger Strike at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison
January 30, 2018: Approximately eight inmates started a hunger strike in response to a number of grievances. These included lack of access to recreation time, food issues, sanitation issues, and lack of access to property.

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Attack on Guards at Youth Correctional Center, North Dakota

imageByperilousJanuary 28, 2018
Attack on Guards at Youth Correctional Center, North Dakota
January 28, 2018: Four teenage detainees attacked guards and destroyed property in an alleged attempt to escape the facility.

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Uprising at Santa Cruz County Jail, California

imageByperilousJanuary 16, 2018
Uprising at Santa Cruz County Jail, California
January 16, 2018: Prisoners tie trip lines from ripped jail-cell sheets, cover their arms with socks, hide their faces with makeshift masks and arm themselves with soap, a radio, mop, books and bottles of liquid. The 26 men housed in the west-wing L Unit complained it was

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Operation Push: Florida Work Stoppage

imageByperilousJanuary 15, 2018
Operation Push: Florida Work Stoppage
January 15, 2018: Prisoners across the Florida prison system organized a work stoppage beginning on Martin Luther King Jr. day. The strikers issued demands and engaged in boycotts of commissary.

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Uprising at Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center, Ohio

imageByperilousJanuary 8, 2018
Uprising at Cuyahoga County Juvenile Detention Center, Ohio
January 8, 2018: At least 12 juvenile detainees between the ages of 14 and 16 took control of a pod and held it for more than three hours, destroying infrastructure, threatening guards and pouring soap on the floor. Initial estimates put the damage at $200,000 or more.

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Hunger Strike at Edmonton Remand Centre, Alberta, Canada

imageByperilousJanuary 6, 2018
Hunger Strike at Edmonton Remand Centre, Alberta, Canada
January 6-10, 2018: At least 55 prisoners at the Edmonton Remand Centre in Alberta, Canada launch a hunger strike to protest an increase in violent attacks on prisoners by corrections officers. The jail responds by placing all striking prisoners in isolation and taking away

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Hunger Strike at Allred Unit, Texas

imageByperilousDecember 25, 2017
Hunger Strike at Allred Unit, Texas
Dec 25, 2017 - Jan 3, 2018: At least 48 prisoners in the administrative segregation unit stage a hunger strike which, according to prison officials, relates to demands regarding recreation time, food portions and the temperature of the prison. Also according to prison

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