State Prison Archives - Page 15 of 18

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Attack on Guards at San Juan County Adult Detention Center, New Mexico

ByperilousDecember 28, 2014

December 28, 2015: Multiple prisoners attacked guards at about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 28 after the guards responded to reports of a fight in pod B8. Additional prisoners refused orders to disperse, causing the guards to retreat. Following a brief negotiation, the prisoners

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Protest at Marquette Branch Prison, Michigan

ByperilousNovember 8, 2014

November 8, 2014: Approximately 40 prisoners refused to leave the prison yard and demanded to speak with the warden about issues related to the quality of food served by the prison's privatized food service, Aramark.

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Attack on Guards at Five Points Correctional Facility, New York

ByperilousSeptember 30, 2014

September 30, 2014: Two prisoners attacked guards as the guards attempted to intervene in a fight. Three guards were transported to a local hospital for treatment.

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Attack on Guards at South Mississippi Correctional Institution

ByperilousSeptember 22, 2014

September 22, 2014: Seven correctional officers were attacked by at least five prisoners as they left a housing unit following a shakedown.

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Escape at Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution, Ohio

ByperilousSeptember 11, 2014

September 11, 2014: Three prisoners escaped from the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution using a 13 foot ladder that they had constructed out of old cabinets. The prisoners carried the ladder through an unoccupied section of the prison and used it to climb onto the roof

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Attack on Guards at Holman Correctional Facility, Alabama

ByperilousSeptember 5, 2014

September 5, 2014: An unknown number of prisoners participated in a disturbance that began when a prisoner attacked a guard as he was searching for contraband cell phones.

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Uprising at Polk Correctional Institution, North Carolina

ByperilousAugust 3, 2014

August 3, 2014: An unknown number of prisoners participated in an uprising in which they destroyed prison infrastructure and barricaded doors to prevent guards from entering their unit.

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Disturbance at Lieber Correctional Institute, South Carolina

ByperilousJuly 8, 2014

July 8 - 9, 2014: Prisoners in the Ashley Unit assaulted an officer, took his keys and started unlocking cells. One prisoner, Ryan Wright, was beaten and stabbed by other prisoners during the incident. It is unclear whether there was any damage to prison infrastructure. Five

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Uprising at Wateree River Correctional Institution, South Carolina

ByperilousJuly 1, 2014

July, 2014 (exact dates uncertain): According to multiple sources who spoke under conditions of anonymity to FITS News, an uprising occurred at the Wateree River Correctional Institution in July, 2014 in which “several thousand dollars worth of damage was done when an open

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Food Strike at SCI Coal Township, Pennsylvania

ByperilousJune 16, 2014

June 16, 2014: Approximately 1,300 prisoners participated in a food strike at SCI Coal Township in Central Pennsylvania in protest of a variety of conditions at the prison, including a recent cut back in food portions.

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