Attack on Guards at Varner Unit, Arkansas
September 26, 2017: A group of prisoners attack guards and stab a lieutenant and beat a major. Prison guards react violently with abuses documented by contraband prisoner cell phones.
Tag: State Prison
Uprising at Cummins Unit, Arkansas
September 14, 2017: Arkansas prisoners stage another short uprising, after incidents in July and August at Tucker Unit. The rebels refuse orders and destroy property. Three prisoners are injured, and one calls out to local media to report that conditions are "like a
Uprising at Norton Correctional Facility, Kansas
September 5, 2017: More than 400 prisoners participate in a "huge riot" destroying prison property, overturning an emergency medical response vehicle, and fighting guards with homemade weapons. Officials later estimate the damage to the prison at $80,000.
Uprising at Tucker Maximum Security Unit, Arkansas – Part 2
August 7, 2017: Just weeks after the July 22 attack on guards at the same facility, six prisoners attack and overcome three guards. They take keys and a Taser which they use to take over part of the facility for hours. The three guards were held by the prisoners in the parts
Attack on Guards at Tucker Maximum Security Unit, Arkansas – Part 1
July 22, 2017: Three prisoners attack guards while they were attempting to handcuff another prisoner. Then "at least three prisoners" escaped from individual holding units in a recreation area. Corrections officers fire "warning shots" with live ammunition in order to regain
Uprising at El Dorado Correctional Facility, Kansas–Part 2
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
Uprising at El Dorado Correctional Facility, Kansas–Part 1
June 24, 2017: 70 prisoners, finding the doors unexpectedly unlocked, leave their housing unit and refuse orders to return. Eventually, prisoners return to their cells, but place objects in the way of the doors, preventing them from securing. They make weapons from broom and
Uprising at Gulf Correctional Institution Annex, Florida
June 21, 2017: Prisoners take over several dorms for around half an hour, injuring seven guards in a "major disturbance." According to the prison, the incident involves more than twenty prisoners and is a result of "tension among gangs." One prisoner is reported injured.
Uprising at Trenton Correctional Institute, South Carolina
June 14, 2017: After a guard confiscates a prisoner's cell phone, other prisoners rally around him and fight guards. Prisoners destroy parts of the dorm and set fires in the prison yard, causing "significant damage."
Hunger Strike at Folsom State Prison, California
May 25, 2017: Prisoners in the administrative segregation unit launch a hunger strike in protest of conditions which they claim "constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the U.S. Constitution."
