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NC Prisoners Riot in Tennessee
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1996, page 22
On October 28, 1995, more than 100 North Carolina prisoners at the Corrections Corporation of America owned private prison in Mason, TN rioted, demanding to be returned to North Carolina. The prisoners smashed toilets and sinks and knocked a hole in a dormitory wall. Guards at the prison ended the ...
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Prison Rebellion.
Locations:
North Carolina,
Tennessee.
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