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Attack on Guards at Arizona State Prison Complex – Winslow

ByperilousJuly 19, 2013

July 19, 2013: Two inmates attack a guard as she is escorting over 50 prisoners. The officers family believes the attack to be a response to the officer providing a drug tip to the department of corrections.

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Attack on Guards at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, Massachusetts

ByperilousJune 25, 2012

June 25, 2018: A prisoner stabbed a prison guard, allegedly in retaliation for the guard confiscating his property the previous day. When other guards came to the aid of the stabbed guard, two other prisoners joined the fight.

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Uprising at Adams County Correctional Facility, Mississippi

ByperilousMay 21, 2012

May 21, 2012: Hundreds of prisoners took control of a unit at a private prison owned by Corrections Corporation of America (now Core Civic) and attempted to negotiate a meeting with the warden to voice their concerns. After guards deploy tear gas canisters, prisoners threw

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Attack on Guards at Gus Harrison Correctional Facility, Michigan

ByperilousOctober 21, 2011

October 21, 2011: After guards confronted a prisoner who they say was not supposed to be in the day room at the time, the prisoner punched a guard and a group of prisoners faced down guards together, shouting threats and, according to a spokesperson for the Michigan

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Youth Uprising at Finger Lakes Residential Center, New York

ByperilousJune 17, 2011

July 17, 2011: Staff "lose control" of the youth detention facility in what staff later call a "full-blown riot" that leads to multiple injuries. The state Office of Children and Family Services, the state agency that oversees the FLRC, admits that a "disturbance" took place

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Escape Attempt at State Penitentiary, South Dakota

ByperilousApril 13, 2011

April 11, 2011: Two prisoners attacked a guard in the prison's factory area, killing him and using his uniform to attempt to escape the prison. They were caught and charged with murder. They pled not guilty and lost at trial, were sentenced to death and executed in October

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Assault on Officer at Fayette CDC, Kentucky

ByperilousMarch 14, 2011

June 6, 2011- A group of detainees in the jail protested being required to remove shower shoes and being denied access to basketball courts. When guards attempted to subdue the disturbance, using rubber bullets and bean bag guns, one detainee threw a large metal prison phone

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Attack on Guards, Varner Unit, Arkansas

ByperilousFebruary 26, 2011

February 26, 2011: Following a 1 AM cell-phone sweep by 100 officers prisoners attacked a guard, who raised an alarm. Four officers who responded to the alarm were then attacked by a group of twenty prisoners, according to the officers. Three suffered minor injuries and one,

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Attack on Guards, New Folsom, California

ByperilousFebruary 8, 2011

February 8, 2011: Shortly after noon, an unknown number of prisoners attacked four guards who were checking prisoners for weapons. The guards were taken to the hospital and treated for minor injuries.

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Uprising at Eastman Youth Detention Center, Georgia

ByperilousJanuary 30, 2011

January 30, 2011: Five juveniles attacked a guard with a broomstick while others set fires and about refused to return to their cells. About 60 inmates were reported to participate in the uprising, causing officers from five counties to respond. The uprising lasted about an

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