City/County Jail Archives - Page 5 of 10

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2018 National Prison Strike

ByperilousAugust 21, 2018

August 21 - September 9, 2018 (exact dates vary based on location): Prisoners with Jailhouse Lawyers Speak and other organizations issued 10 national demands with a call to action for work stoppages, sit-down strikes, hunger strikes and boycotts of the commissary. Organizers

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Escape at Troup County Jail, Georgia

ByperilousAugust 17, 2018

August 17, 2018: Two inmates escaped from Troup County Jail after climbing down a drainpipe.

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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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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 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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Uprising at Santa Cruz County Jail, California

ByperilousJanuary 16, 2018

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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Mass Escape from Boyd County Detention Center, Kentucky

ByperilousDecember 28, 2017

December 28, 2017: Four prisoners escaped the detention center in the 10th escape from the facility since July, 2017 . Catlettsburg Police Chief Cameron Logan told WSAZ the prisoners changed their clothes before escaping and "followed the air conditioning duct to the roof

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Thanksgiving Attack on Correctional Captain, Rikers Island, New York

ByperilousNovember 23, 2017

November 23, 2017: Prisoners carry out a premeditated, retaliatory attack on a corrections captain following the captain's alleged use of excessive force.