5 World's Largest Prison Riot

5 World's Largest Prison Riot - Often associated with seizure control, violence, prison riots are an extreme way in which prison inmates voicing their complaints against the head of the prison authorities. The inmates believe that the only dissent that could get public attention and government. Several riots in history has made corrections practitioners to take action to prevent such activities occur.

1. New Mexico Jail

New Mexico prison riot, which took place on December 2 and February 3, 1980 against the State maximum security prison south of Santa Fe, is one of the most violent prison riots in the history of the American correctional system: 33 inmates were killed and more than 200 inmates were treated for injuries. None of the 12 officers held hostage were killed, but seven people were treated for injuries caused by beatings and rape.

2. Ashwell prison
Hundreds of detainees rages on in Ashwell, Oakham, Rutland in the worst prison riot in Britain for nearly 20 years. More than 400 inmates escaped from their cells and set fire tothe prison building. Some prisoners destroy the way out to the bottom of the prison, but none are believed to have fled. The problem began when the officer found an inmate drunkon hooch. Alcohol is strongly brewed by prisoners on the loose in the field.

3. Attica prison

Four-day uprising at Attica maximum security prison near Buffalo, New York, in 1971 was one of the worst riots in the past. When hundreds of police state in the hail of gunfire, 39 people were killed in the disaster, including 29 prisoners and 10 prison guards and employees hostage since the beginning of this ordeal.

4. São Paulo prison
One of the deadliest episodes in recent decades occurred in 1992 in São Paulo, Brazil,where 111 prisoners were killed as authorities tried to insurrection. Human rights groups(Human Rights) has accused prison officials to kill inmates by firing indiscriminately, evento those who had surrendered. A Brazilian police colonel sentenced to 60 years in prison for using excessive force in seizing back the prison facility.

5. Oklahoma prison

In July 1973, in McAlester Oklahoma Prison exploded into one of the worst prison riots in U.S. history. Crowded conditions which led to riots that took place almost since the construction of the facility in 1911. Capacity of 100,000 prison inmates have been exceeded in 1920, and 1973, population of 20-20 excess prison inmates. Governor David Hall stated refusal to sign the recommendation for parole for drug offenders and inmates convicted of crimes and violence so that it gives the contribution to the prison inmates in overcrowding. Violence began to emerge as the number of guards that are too small, and there is the role of the "boss convict," and other factors that cause dissatisfaction inmates.

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