A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners in attempt to force change or express a grievance.
Prison riots have received a little academic attention. The papers that do exist tend to draw a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, or discuss the dynamics of the modern prison riot. In addition, a large proportion of papers focus on specific cases of prison riots.
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In the prison cells of pride,
Lose the freedom of the sod,
Like a colt’s for work be shod,”
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men who crouch by the hearth
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but the riot of stars in the night;
those who dwell far inland
will seek ships.”
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