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Uprising at FCI Oakdale I, Louisiana Following Multiple COVID-19 Deaths

ByperilousApril 8, 2020

April 8, 2020: A ruckus ensued in response to an effort by staff to move prisoners who had just finished a two week quarantine due to them potentially having COIVID-19, into housing units with no known COVID-19 cases.

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Hunger Strike at Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York

ByperilousJanuary 14, 2019

January 14 - (end date unknown): An unspecified number of prisoners went on hunger strike in response to cancelled visits that were the result of staffing shortages due to the government shutdown. The New York Times reported that the facility, which is run by the Federal

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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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Hunger Strike at Edmonton Remand Centre, Alberta

ByperilousJuly 23, 2018

July 23-30, 2018: More than 200 prisoners went on hunger strike in protest of a new policy restricting time outside of their cells. One week later, 14 prisoners continued refusing meals. The prisoners were protesting a new program called "tiered rotation" in which prisoners

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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 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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Attack on guards at Saskatchewan Federal Penitentiary, Canada

ByperilousApril 22, 2014

April 22, 2014: Approximately five prisoners attacked two prison guards at around 8 in the evening, which ended with both guards and one of the prisoners requiring medical treatment.

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Food Strike at Federal Correctional Institution, Fairton, New Jersey

ByperilousDecember 17, 2012

January 4th, 2013: Prisoners participated in a food strike in response to a new policy which would punish an entire block or unit of prisoners for not admitting to carrying "contraband."

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