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Hunger Strike at SCI-Fayette, Pennsylvania

ByperilousJuly 4, 2019

July 4, 2019-end date unknown: According to the Pennsylvania-based prisoner rights advocacy group the Human Rights Coalition, 16 prisoners went on hunger strike to protest a variety of conditions including "repeated physical abuse from guards, sexual harassment, extensive

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Food Strike at California State Prison, Corcoran

ByperilousJune 27, 2019

June 27, 2019-ongoing: At least half of the prisoners in the 3C unit of the California State Prison, Corcoran began a food strike on June 27 in protest of a change in prison policy that would take kitchen jobs away from general population and give them to prisoners in

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Protest at Minnesota Correctional Facility – Shakopee

ByperilousJune 22, 2019

June 22, 2019: According to the Industrial Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), 100 of the 130 prisoners in the Anthony Unit of the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee wore blue to protest treatment of LGBTQ prisoners at the facility. The Shakopee prison is a women's

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Hunger Strike at Limestone Correctional Facility, Alabama

ByperilousJune 14, 2019

June 14, 2019: Five men incarcerated at Limestone C.F. went on a hunger strike that lasted for close to two weeks.

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Disturbance at Alder Conservation Camp, California

ByperilousJune 3, 2019

June 3, 2019: Three prisoners and one staff member were injured after what the California Department of Corrections called a "riot" at Alder Conservation Camp. While details remain unclear, about 40 prisoners reportedly participated in the disturbance at the camp that houses

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Uprising at Spring Creek Correctional Center, Alaska

ByperilousMay 7, 2019

May 7, 2019: Approximately 62 prisoners barricaded themselves inside of their housing unit, Hotel Mod, and destroyed prison infrastructure. The Alaska Department of Corrections estimated that the riot caused $100,000 in damage to computer lines, cameras, interior glass, fire

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Escape at Maui Community Correctional Center, Hawaii

ByperilousApril 14, 2019

April 14, 2019: Two pretrial detainees kicked open a "termite-eaten" door while guards slept and escaped the prison. One of the prisoners, Barret “BJ” Paman, turned himself in to law enforcement later that day, stating that he escaped because the conditions at the prison

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Fire and Attack on Guards at Marshall County Correctional Facility, Mississippi

ByperilousApril 3, 2019

April 3, 2019: Prisoners at a private facility in Mississippi attacked a guard and set fire to part of their unit. The guard was airlifted to a hospital as a result.

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Coordinated Hunger Strike at Two Wisconsin Prisons

ByperilousMarch 26, 2019

March 26 - April 22, 2019: Nine prisoners at two Wisconsin prisons began a hunger strike demanding an end to indefinite solitary confinement. Their demands cited the recently elected governor's campaign promises to reform solitary confinement practices. The hunger strike was