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Riot Hits FCI Sheridan
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1993, page 7
On Sep. 2, 1993, a riot broke out at the overcrowded FCI in Sheridan, OR. According to a report in The Columbian , of Sep. 3, 1993, an office building at the four year old medium security prison was burned to the ground after 20 to 30 prisoners stormed out …
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