prison riots
Correctional facility uprisings
Prison riots are violent uprisings by inmates against prison authorities, typically involving destruction of facilities, hostage-taking, or clashes with guards.
They usually erupt over grievances about conditions, overcrowding, or treatment: The prison riots lasted three days before order was restored.
A single event is a prison riot.
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- maximum securityHighest-level prison classification
- fatalitiesLosses of life
- hostagesCaptives held for demands
tear gas · injuries · property damage · warden · shank · Attica · psychological trauma · food shortages · solitary confinement · gang members · flashpoint · legal repercussions · emergency responders · negotiators · informants · demands · racial tensions · surveillance systems
- penologypenology, prisons, incarceration, parole board, corrections officers
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prisoner, warden
- prisonsinmates, cells, prisons, prisoner, penitentiary
- Incarcerationcell blocks, private prisons, solitary confinement, death row, life sentence
- civil unrestriots, rioting, mob, uprising, revolt
prison riotspeaceful protest
Nonviolent collective expression of dissent
nonviolent resistance · hunger strike · sit-in · work stoppage · silent protest