Prison riot
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A prison riot is a riot that occurs in a prison, usually when those incarcerated rebel openly against correctional officials. It is usually instigated by prisoners who claim that the administration are degrading them, either by direct physical, or psychological force. Riots may also be caused by poor living standards, such as improper plumbing, lack of exercise time, or a lack of educational facilities, or the privilege of attending them. A prison riot can also occur because the criminal element housed inside prisons simply want to be disorderly.
Canadian bank robber and author, Roger Caron chronicled the 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riots in his book Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account of a Prison Riot which was published in 1985. The book details the release of rage and chaos that ensued after five hundred inmates rioted and destroyed much of the prison.
[edit] List of prison riots
- Alcatraz Island, California, May 1946 - 5 killed
- Attica Prison riots, 1971 - 43 killed
- Dick Conner Correctional Center Riot, December 1983 -
- Fremantle prison riot
- Kingston Penitentiary riots, 1971 - 2 inmates killed
- New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot, 1980 - 33 killed, over 100 injured
- Michoacán, Mexico, July 1988 - 10 killed, 15 injured
- Oklahoma State Penitentiary Riot, July 1973 - lasted an entire weekend, 3 inmates killed; 24 buildings were damaged and only 4 buildings were left usable.
- Oklahoma State Penitentiary "Disturbance", December 1985 - Held a unit for a day.
- Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, April 1992
- 1992 Carandiru Massacre, São Paulo, Brazil, October 1992 - 111 inmates killed
- Iquique, Chile, May 2001 - at least 28 inmates killed, up to 150 injured
- El Porvenir prison, Honduras, April 2003 - 86 inmates killed
- Camp Bucca, Iraq, January 2005 - 4 inmates killed, 6 injured
- Pavon/Granja Pino Canada/El Hoyon prisons, Guatemala, August 2005 - 35 killed
- San Quentin State Prison, California, January 2006 - at least 25 injured
- North County Correctional Facility, Castaic, California, February 2006 - 1 inmate killed, over 100 injured
- Kabul, Afghanistan, February 2006
- Santa Ana prison in San Cristobal, Tachira Venezuela, December 2007 - 30 inmates killed
- Strangeways Prison riot, April 1990
- New Castle, Indiana, April 2007 [1]
[edit] List of Fictional Prison Riots
The following is a list of prison riots which have been depicted in various forms of media, including books, film, and television.
- The race riot in the second episode of Season 1 of Prison Break, Allen.
- The riot at Fox River that occurred during Prison Break's first season's two-part episode Riots, Drills, and the Devil.
- Multiple riots occurred in the television series Oz during it's six season run.
- In The Simpsons episode The Homer They Fall, a prison riot in progress is halted instantly when imprisoned champion boxer Drederick Tatum petulantly asks the inmates and guards to "Knock it off." They apologize and begin extinguishing the flames and tidying up.
