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...industry - focusing on preventing and squashing unrest - has grown in recent years, offering such products as cell doors that swing in both directions to prevent barricades, as well as stab- and slash-resistant body armor for corrections officers. Many of these products will be showcased at the annual Mock Prison Riot trade show to be held next spring in West Virginia. Its slogan: "Where technology meets mayhem...
...nation's deadliest uprising took place over four days at upstate New York's Attica Correctional Facility in 1971. More than 1,000 prisoners rebelled, holding dozens of guards hostage and issuing a series of demands to improve living conditions (prisoners were reportedly allowed only one shower per week and one toilet-paper roll per month). After negotiations broke down, authorities forcibly retook the facility, using tear gas and live ammunition. The violence killed 32 inmates and 11 guards. (Decades later, New York State awarded millions in damages to surviving inmates who said they were mistreated following the insurrection...
...bloody as prison uprisings have been in the U.S., they are often far more violent abroad. Indeed, the full worldwide toll of prison violence is likely unknowable, considering the restrictions on press freedom under many of the world's more repressive regimes. One of the deadliest episodes in recent decades took place in 1992 in São Paulo, Brazil, where 111 prisoners were killed as authorities sought to put down an uprising. Human-rights groups accused corrections officers of shooting inmates indiscriminately, even those who had surrendered. A Brazilian police colonel was sentenced to 600 years in prison...
...Paulo uprising took place in a notoriously violent prison, which housed more than twice as many inmates as it was intended for. Many observers warn that increasing overcrowding is a serious threat in U.S. prisons as well. Reform advocates welcomed a judicial ruling earlier this month requiring California to reduce its prison population more than 25% over the next two years. A three-judge panel ordered the state to trim more than 40,000 inmates from its rolls because adequate medical care was unavailable to them, but the order also cited concerns over public safety. "In these overcrowded conditions...
...Read "California's Growing Prison Crisis...