#Prison riot

[odettecarotte]

For those within this circle, every groan and cry, curse and shout insisted slavery time was over. They were tired of being abused and confined; they wanted to be free. Aaron had written almost those exact words in one of his letters: "I tell you Miss Cobb, it is no slave time with colored people now." So had Mattie's mother. All of them might well have shouted, No slave time now. Abolition now. In the surreal, utopian nonsense of it all, and at the heart of riot, was the anarchy of colored girls: treason en masse, tumult, gathering together, the mutual collaboration required to confront the prison authorities and the police, the willingness to lose oneself and become something greater-a chorus, swarm, ensemble, mutual aid society. In lieu of an explanation or an appeal, they shouted and screamed. How else were they to express the longing to be free? How else were they to make plain their refusal to be governed? It was the soundtrack to a history that hurt.

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

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"UNREST IS SEETHING IN LEAVENWORTH PEN AS RIOT IS SUBDUED," Wichita Eagle. August 3, 1929. Page 1 & 10. ---- Leaders in Mutiny Locked Up in Solitary; Guard Is Increased; U. S. Opens Inquiry ==== UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY LEAVENWORTH, Aug. 2 - (AP) - Unrest among prisoners smouldered un- der the surface here today by was held in check by stern measures of prison authorities who announced no further outbreaks were expected to follow yesterday's mutiny in which one convict was killed and three were wounded.

Leaders of the convict uprising were singled out and placed in close confinement to prevent continued agitation.

On the surface there was little evidence of the spirit of revolt which flamed yesterday, but an undercurrent of unrest pervaded the institution. A heavy guard was maintained throughout the day.

Windows Mute Evidence Broken windows in the two large cell houses flanking the main entrance were the only visible signs of the damage wrought by the rioting convicts who fought with their guards yesterday and vented their feelings by destroying prison property.

Real suffering again was experienced among the convict population from the extreme heat, which was believed to have been a factor in causing yesterday's flareup.

Built to accommodate 2,000 inmates, the prison houses more than 3,000 convicts. Prison officials expressed the belief that overcrowding was the underlying cause of the outbreak.

Up to Congress Sanford Bates, superintendent of federal prisons, said in a statement at Washington that the congestion in federal penal institutions had resulted in a grave situation.. Appropriations from congress were needed, he said, to relieve the situation and to extend prison industries so that convicts could be put to work.

Austin H. MacCormick, assistant superintendent of federal prisons, was ordered here to conduct an investigation into the mutiny. The convicts have been grumbling at the food served them and the frequency of red rice on the menu apparently touched off the spark. When prisoners from the narcotic section found rice on the tables again for the noon meal yesterday they hurled the bowls at guards and staged a demonstration.

Smash Machinery A semblance of order was restored by the day captain on duty and some of the men were sent to their cells. Others were taken to the shoe fac- tory but refused to go to work and began to smash the machinery. Guards then removed all the workers from the factory and placed them in cells.

Meanwhile a demonstration was staged in the laundry. This was overcome without much trouble, however.

The heaviest rioting occurred later when the first group of prisoners were brought into the mess hall for the evening meal. Table ware was hurled about the room and there was a general uproar, some of the convicts seizing knives and forks for weapons while others tore off legs of tables to use as clubs.

Retreat Before Guns Warden T. B. White appeared and attempted to reason with the rioters, finally succeeding with the aid of guards in getting them into the prison yard. The majority of the convicts went to their cells voluntarily. Those who refused were driven into the cell houses by guards armed with shotguns.

There was pandemonium in the two big cell houses as prisoners tore off fixtures from the cell galleries, smashed windows, pried loose bricks which they hurled at the guards and fought hand to hand with their keepers.

It was during this demonstration that the guards opened fire, killing Mike Martinez, a long term prisoner, and wounding three others. The mutiny was finally quelled late in the night.

[coochiequeens]

Dozens of women are dead and the President of Honduras is not accepting any responsibility.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A grisly riot at a women's prison in Honduras Tuesday left at least 41 women dead, most burned to death, in violence the country's president blamed on "mara" street gangs that often wield broad power inside penitentiaries.

Twenty-six of the victims were burned to death and the remainder shot or stabbed at the prison in Tamara, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, said Yuri Mora, the spokesman for Honduras' national police investigation agency. At least seven inmates were being treated at a Tegucigalpa hospital.

"The forensic teams that are removing bodies confirm they have counted 41," said Mora.

Video clips shown by the government from inside the prison showed several pistols and a heap of machetes and other bladed weapons that were found after the riot. Honduran President Xiomara Castro said the riot was "planned by maras with the knowledge and acquiescence of security authorities." "I am going to take drastic measures!" Castro wrote in her social media accounts.

Prisoners belonging to the feared Barrio 18 gang reportedly burst into a cell block and shot other inmates or set them afire. Relatives awaiting news about inmates gathered outside the morgue in Tegucigalpa. They confirmed that inmates in the prison had told them they lived in fear of the Barrio 18 gang.

Johanna Paola Soriano Euceda was waiting for news about her mother Maribel Euceda, and sister, Karla Soriano. Both were on trial for drug trafficking, but were held in the same area as convicted prisoners. Soriano Euceda said they had told her on Sunday that "they (Barrio 18 members) were out of control, they were fighting with them all the time. That was the last time we talked."

Another group of dozens of anxious, angry relatives gathered outside the prison, located in a rural area about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the capital. "We are here dying of anguish, of pain ... we don't have any information," said Salomón García, whose daughter is an inmate at the facility. Azucena Martinez, whose daughter was also being held at the prison, said "there are a lot of dead, 41 already. We don't know if our relatives are also in there, dead."

Julissa Villanueva, head of the country's prison system, suggested the riot started because of recent attempts by authorities to crack down on illicit activity inside prisons and called Tuesday's violence a reaction to moves "we are taking against organized crime." "We will not back down," Villanueva said in a televised address after the riot.

Gangs wield broad control inside the country's prisons, where inmates often set their own rules and sell prohibited goods. They were also apparently able to smuggle in guns and other weapons, a recurring problem in Honduran prisons."The issue is to prevent people from smuggling in drugs, grenades and firearms," said Honduran human rights expert Joaquin Mejia. "Today's events show that they have not been able to do that."

The riot appears to be the worst tragedy at a female detention center in Central America since 2017, when girls at a shelter for troubled youths in Guatemala set fire to mattresses to protest rapes and other mistreatment at the badly overcrowded institution. The ensuing smoke and fire killed 41 girls.The worst prison disaster in a century also occurred in Honduras, in 2012 at the Comayagua penitentiary, where 361 inmates died in a fire possibly caused by a match, cigarette or some other open flame. Tuesday's riot may increase the pressure on Honduras to emulate the drastic zero-tolerance, no-privileges prisons set in up in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele. While El Salvador's crackdown on gangs has given rise to rights violations, it has also proved immensely popular in a country long terrorized by street gangs

[rodpower78]

1971 Attica prison uprising.

[queerism1969]

Ask me why I walk around with an attitude two thousand years of pain, I was born to be mad at you Born as a radical You must think I'm Boo-Boo the fool I see how you move You try to play the savior but you are the dictator

[rizzoto-whump]

My first art that I posted on my new Ao3 account. No words, only arts because my English is quite bad

It tells about a riot in prison and violence perpetrated by inmates. Focuses on an inmate named Ronald van den Berg, and he will take revenge on a warden, James Zhang

(Warden!James wasn't a bad person, but somehow Ronald wanted to kill him)

Mind the tags! There will be violence, and noncon, of course

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42911460

[odettecarotte]

All those listening on the outside could discern were "gales of cat-calls, hurricanes of screams, cyclones of rage, tornadoes of squeals." The sounds yielded to "one hair-raising, ear-testing Devil's chorus." Those inside the circle listened for the love and disappointment, the longing and the outrage that fueled this collective utterance. They channeled the fears and the hopes of the ones who loved them, the bad dreams and the nightmares about children stolen away by white men in the back of wagons or lost at sea. The refrains were redolent with all the lovely plans about what they would do once they were free. These sounds traveled through the night air.

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

This chapter is about a "noise strike" prison riot carried out by the young women incarcerated in the Bedford Reformatory for Women.

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"WARDEN HOLDS TO RULES OF PRISON," Hamilton Spectator. July 19, 1933. Page 2. ---- Convict Claims They Conflict With Law of Land ---- Argument at Trial of Prisoner Gallivan ---- Kingston, Ont., July 19.-(CP)- "Prison regulations are the laws of the land as far as I am concerned, while I am warden of the Kingston penitentiary," said Warden Megloughlin, when cross-examined by Convict Gallivan in the trial of Convict Paul Demerse, to-day. Gallivan sought to prove that by acting according to prison regulations, the warden was ignoring the law. Warden Megloughlin stoutly maintained his actions were governed by the department of justice regulations and that it was his duty to -obey such rules.

Gallivan charged Megloughlin had failed to produce certain papers pertinent to the trial of the accused when requested by letter. The warden retorted that under court procedure it was necessary to make these requests to the court and he stated that Gallivan's letters had been forwarded to Crown Attorney T. J. Rigney.

Gallivan continued to cross-examine Megloughlin along the same lines when he was interrupted by Judge Madden.

"All this may be very interesting and would be useful for a penitentiary investigation," said the judge, "but in this trial we are interested solely in the actions of the accused on the afternoon of October 17, 1932." Judge Madden upheld the warden for fulfilling the duties of his office.

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

[sleepysera]

Sep 30 Headlines

WORLD NEWS

Ecuador: Declares Prison emergency after 116 killed in riot (AP)

"Ecuador’s president has declared a state of emergency in the prison system following a battle among gang members in a coastal lockup that killed at least 116 people and injured 80 in what authorities say was the worst prison bloodbath ever in the country. Officials said at least five of the dead were found to have been beheaded."

Sudan: Protesters demand civilian rule, want army out (AP)

"Thousands of Sudanese rallied in the capital of Khartoum on Thursday to demand an exclusively civilian transitional government and accusing the generals now in power of derailing its transition to democracy. Sudan has been ruled by an interim joint civilian-military government since 2019. The military ousted longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in April that year, following four months of mass protests against his rule."

United Nations: Workers who keep global supply chains moving are warning of 'system collapse' (CNN)

"In an open letter Wednesday to heads of state attending the United Nations General Assembly, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and other industry groups warned of a "global transport system collapse" if governments do not restore freedom of movement to transport workers and give them priority to receive vaccines recognized by the World Health Organization."

US NEWS

US Congress: Moves to avert partial government shutdown (AP)

"Congress is moving to avert one crisis while putting off another with the Senate poised to approve legislation that would fund the federal government into early December. The House is expected to approve the measure following the Senate vote Thursday, preventing a partial government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins Friday."

Capitol Riot: Jan 6 rioter who said she looked for Pelosi 'to shoot her in the friggin' brain' pleads guilty (CNN)

"A Pennsylvania woman who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 and said she had been looking for Nancy Pelosi "to shoot her in the friggin' brain" pleaded guilty Tuesday to a low-level misdemeanor for unlawfully protesting on restricted grounds. Doylestown gym owner Dawn Bancroft entered the guilty plea in DC District Court and was immediately dressed down by a federal judge, who called the violent rhetoric caught in a video selfie "disturbing.""

Covid: Health workers once saluted as heroes now get threats (AP)

"In Idaho, nurses said they are scared to go to the grocery store unless they have changed out of their scrubs so they aren’t accosted by angry residents. Doctors and nurses at a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, hospital have been accused of killing patients by grieving family members who don’t believe COVID-19 is real, said hospital spokeswoman Caiti Bobbitt. Others have been the subject of hurtful rumors spread by people angry about the pandemic."

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 30, 2015 - Prisoners in the overcrowded Ravenhall prison, in Melbourne, Australia, rose up in protest against a new cigarette ban and caused 15 million Australian dollars in damage. [video]

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"LASHED AGAINST DOCTOR'S ADVICE," Hamilton Spectator. July 19, 1933. Page 7. ---- Testimony Re Convict at Kingston ---- Three Months Added to Term of E. Snell ---- Kingston, Ont., July 19. That he had been released from the prison hospital only a few hours previous to the outbreak on the afternoon of October 17, 1932, and that he was physically incapable of taking an active part, was the statement made by Convict Ernest Snell, when he went into the witness stand on his own behalf before Judge Deroche, to-day. Evidence, was give to show that Snell was subject to epileptic fits and had been confined to the hospital from October 15 to 17, noon.

Snell testified that when he was released from the hospital he joined the excavation gang. When the riot started he went into the main dome as he "was anxious to see what was going on." Later he went to the mail bag department.

Dr. Platte, prison physician and surgeon, gave evidence of Snell's hospital record. He stated that the accused was subject to severe fits at varying periods.

Questioned by J. M. Simpson, K.C., counsel for the defense, he stated it was possible there would be a "confusion of ideas" in Snell's mind after such attacks. It was also brought out that Snell's sentence included lashes, but Dr. Platte had advised against the latter on account of the accused's physical condition. He admitted, however, that the lashes were ad- ministered while he was absent on his vacation.

Judge Deroche said that he was in sympathy with the accused's condition and would impose the lightest sentence he felt possible - three months in the penitentiary.