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Prison Revolt in England

Loaded on May 15, 1990 published in Prison Legal News May, 1990, page 8
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, International, Prisoners-International. Location: United Kingdom.
Prisoners in the horribly overcrowded Strangeways prison in Manchester, England rose in revolt on 1 April, 1990 protesting the conditions that had 1,660 men in a prison built in 1868 for 970 men. The prison does not have plumbing in the cells and the prisoners live in squalor. They are …

 

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