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Uprising at Baffin Correctional Centre, Nunavut, Canada

ByperilousJune 20, 2018

June 20, 2018: An uprising in the Charlie Unit that lasted five hours caused extensive damage to the facility with estimates of the damages well over $100,00. Prisoners took over the wing, causing guards to abandon their posts, and threw various items at the windows of the

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Hunger Strike at Edmonton Remand Centre, Alberta, Canada

ByperilousJanuary 6, 2018

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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Uprising at Baffin Correctional Centre, Nunavut, Canada

ByperilousSeptember 25, 2017

September 25, 2017: At least four prisoners participated in a two hour uprising that caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to the facility. According to the Department of Justice, prisoners destroyed "85 per cent of the building's medium security bed space and 33 per cent

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Uprising at North Bay Jail, Ontario, Canada

ByperilousAugust 12, 2017

August 12, 2017: Prisoners staged an uprising that lasted eight hours. The uprising resulted in broken windows and one guard receiving treatment for minor injuries. According to a representative from the prison guard union, Ontario Public Service Employees Union local 616,

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Uprising at Regina Provincial Correctional Center, Saskatchewan, Canada

ByperilousJune 8, 2017

June 8, 2017: At least 13 prisoners took part in an uprising, causing at estimated $100,000 in damage to the facility. Following the uprising, 4 prisoners were transferred to other facilities and one prisoner and one guard were treated for minor injuries.

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Uprising at Saskatchewan Penitentiary, Canada

ByperilousDecember 14, 2016

December 14, 2016: At least 185 prisoners refuse to attend their normally-scheduled activities and instead mask up, destroy surveillance cameras, erect barricades, set fires, destroy significant portions of the prison and smash a hole in the floor so they can move to

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Hunger Strike at Central East Correctional Centre, Ontario

ByperilousOctober 16, 2016

October 16-29, 2016: Immigrant detainees re-launch their hunger strike (which had ended in July) in protest of their placement in maximum security prisons, indefinite detention of immigrants and a variety of other grievances. The outside group End Immigration Detention

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Hunger Strikes at Two Immigrant Detention Centers in Ontario

ByperilousJuly 11, 2016

July 11-29, 2016: A group of immigrant detainees in two facilities in Ontario participate in a coordinated hunger strike in protest of their placement in maximum security prisons, indefinite detention of immigrants and a variety of other grievances. The outside group End

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Protest at Toronto South Detention Centre

ByperilousJune 9, 2016

June 9, 2016: As many as 160 prisoners at the Toronto South Detention Centre refused to return to their cells in protest of inhuman conditions caused, in part, by frequent lockdowns. Prisoner sat in the prison yard during the protest.

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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 Baffin Correctional Centre, Nunavut, Canada

Hunger Strike at Edmonton Remand Centre, Alberta, Canada

Uprising at Baffin Correctional Centre, Nunavut, Canada

Uprising at North Bay Jail, Ontario, Canada

Uprising at Regina Provincial Correctional Center, Saskatchewan, Canada

Uprising at Saskatchewan Penitentiary, Canada

Hunger Strike at Central East Correctional Centre, Ontario

Hunger Strikes at Two Immigrant Detention Centers in Ontario

Protest at Toronto South Detention Centre

Uprising at Regina Provincial Correctional Center, Saskatchewan, Canada

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