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Protest and Uprising at Crossroads Correctional, Missouri

ByperilousMay 12, 2018

May 12, 2018: After recreation and programming were cut due to staffing shortages, prisoners stage a sit-down strike--sitting peacefully and refusing to follow orders from staff. According to the Missouri DOC, 209 prisoners participated in the protest. The conflict

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Work Stoppage at Angola Prison, Louisiana

ByperilousMay 8, 2018

May 8th, 2018: Following a fight between prisoners and guards, at least 27 prisoners refuse to work. According to the prisoners themselves, 100 prisoners eventually participate in the work stoppage. That night, prisoners release a list of demands. Despite the prisoners’

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Protest at Tecumseh Correctional Institution, Nebraska

ByperilousApril 14, 2018

April 14, 2018: At least 36 prisoners refused to return to their cells, prompting guards to call in the prison riot response team. Prisoners returned to their cells before the response teams arrived. At this point, the reason for the protest is unknown.

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Protest at Maui Community Correctional Center, Hawaii

ByperilousApril 9, 2018

April 9, 2018: Prisoners refuse orders to return to their cells. According to reports, they "wanted to express their frustration with the phone system, a damaged television in the common area of their module, and the absence of rice with some of their meals over the past few

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Operation Push: Florida Work Stoppage

ByperilousJanuary 15, 2018

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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Hunger Strike at Allred Unit, Texas

ByperilousDecember 25, 2017

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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Hunger Strikes in Maricopa County Jails, Arizona

ByperilousOctober 31, 2017

Late October 2017: Around 23 prisoners held in the Maricopa County jails went on hunger strike to protest poor food quality.

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Uprising at Fairbanks Correctional Center, Fairbanks, Alaska

ByperilousAugust 17, 2017

August 17, 2017: After an unexplained and unexpected change in prison policy regarding which prisoners are assigned to which housing units, a group of approximately 15 prisoners refused to return to their cells and took control of a section of the prison in protest. The

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Uprising at El Dorado Correctional Facility, Kansas–Part 2

ByperilousJune 29, 2017

June 29, 2017: When prisoners are released from lockdown following their rebellion earlier in the week, they immediately begin a protest of prison conditions. Around 120 prisoners occupy the prison yard and refuse orders to return to their cells. They break into an office

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Fires Set at New Hampshire State Prison for Men

ByperilousFebruary 2, 2017

February 2, 2017: Protests spread to a second facility in New Hampshire as fires are set in protest of restrictive visitation policies in all three New Hampshire prisons. The new policy includes no kissing, no hugs lasting more than 3 seconds, no vending machines or board

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