Prison Riots Should Come As No Surprise

Severe prison overcrowding, and general horrid conditions (such as locking human beings in cages for 20 hours a day) produces anti-social behavior, of course. Riots historically have been then only tactic to shed light on these conditions and produce change.

Prison riots in the last week include:

Chino, California

Mexico City, Mexico

Ashwell, England

Also see Riots to Rebellions past post on Prison Riots and Attica!

Prison Riot in England

Inmates tore apart the prison in which they live after a dispute with staff, government cost cutting and over crowding is being blamed.

Prison Riots!

The huge riots in a West Texas prison are a direct response from prisoners to poor medical care, this is not surprising as poor medical care in prison is a nation wide epidemic. People are dying in their cells from treatable ailments, communicable disease spreads like wildfire, mental illness created and exasperated by typical prison conditions. It's obscene people. I hope this action brings those folks some relief, already the local media is talking about prison medical care...

Overview of the Prison Health Crisis

Texas Prisons and Health Care

Health care crisis and women prisoners

AIDS crisis in prison



The prison riot has long been a tactical response to the severe oppression felt by the incarcerated, if you are not up on your history, please read about the Attica rebellion (wiki synopsis, and deeper, and video of Attica prisoners telling their story), it's an amazing and tragic piece of people's history, know it, spread it!