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More than 130 prisoners have been reported killed in Brazil this year, many of them beheaded, in a series of bloody prison riots blamed on drug gangs.

Cahill has the support of the State Troopers PBA, in part due to his opposition of the AG's move to unseal documents about the 1971 Attica prison riot.

He began as a liberal, but grew more conservative: he limited SUNY's growth, responded aggressively to the Attica Prison riot, and promulgated the uniquely severe Rockefeller Drug Laws.

The prisons unit — the officers they use against prison riots or any disorder in a detention facility — arrived at about 6 am.

He noted current state law makes it nearly impossible to unseal grand jury records, even from old cases like those that resulted from the Attica prison riot in 1971.

Thomas Mungeer, the president of the Troopers Public Benevolent Association, cited the Attorney General's recent push for the release of records relating to the Attica prison riot as part of the reason why the union threw its support behind Cahill, a top aide to former Gov. George Pataki.

Also, a horrible feeling that there are some terrifying, awful men out there that will in one breath call you the most beautiful creature in the world, and then — when you fail to meet whatever demand or expectation they've laid out for you — will say things to you that you're pretty sure only get said during prison riots.

Representing filmmaker John Frankenheimer's return to the small screen, this made - for - cable - TV reenactment of the 1971 Attica prison riots is jam - packed with political and sociological implications.

Evans admitted the hardest scene to shoot as a director was an epic prison riot in the mud, as it would splash on the camera lens and ruin good takes.

As you watch film about the Attica prison riots, which may have been touched off by a racial incident, the segment goes on way too long and seems to stray from the notion of a Black Power movement.

minutiae, like how they were able to light one stuntman ablaze for the prison riot using fire gel.

The film still has all the little Soderbergh touches — there's a scene involving a prison riot that gets caught up in the differences between the TV version and the book version of Game of Thrones in which you can almost sense Soderbergh nudging the camera — but what's perhaps most impressive about it is how effortless it all seems.

The shenanigans begin as James» mansion is turned into «San Quentin,» where Darnell and others lock James in a cell, simulate a prison riot, etc..

A muddy prison riot early in the film is absolutely brutal and gripping in execution as well as fight in a toilet cubicle that defies the laws of physics for so much awesomeness to be unleashed in a tight space.

Cambodia's traditional martial art of bokator is unleashed in all its bone crunching fury in this action - packed tale of police trapped in the midst of a raging prison riot.

From a mud - spattered prison riot to a blistering car chase, Evans never lets up, peaking in an astonishing seven - minute long showdown that leaves you as drained as the combatants.

Mona Achache's French drama The Hedgehog took the audience award for Best Film (runners up were Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer, Jean - Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs, the Spanish prison riot thriller Cell 211 by Daniel Monzà ³ n and the Russian musical drama Hipsters by Valery Todorovsky).

Sure a prison riot is exciting, but the lengths that Lurie goes to stretch credibility a little too far, even for a movie of this nature.

Mane and Moran play inmates in an extremely violent and bloody prison riot, along with Danny Trejo (Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn), Derek Mears (Friday the 13th), Sean Whalen (Halloween II, Men in Black), and Vernon Wells (The Road Warrior), directed by B.J. McDonnell (Hatchet III) and produced by Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp, Paranormal Halloween).

A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront the inmate who, twenty years ago, held him hostage during a prison riot.

For more on the latest Indie Obscura news, be sure to check out our coverage of Devolver's new open - world prison riot game SCUM, the recent open beta launch of Epic Games» MOBA Paragon, and PaperSeven's upcoming heart - wrenching adventure title Blackwood Crossing.

But the most amusing thing he had seen was a SWAT team entering the prison to take on a prison riot, only to stop and suddenly tidy up all of the trash that was left outside the prison with a certain brutal efficiency.

Once the prison is up and running, you will have to manage its finances and make sure everyone is happy (you do not want a prison riot).

For more on the latest Indie Obscura news, be sure to check out our coverage of Devolver's upcoming open - world prison riot game SCUM, PaperSeven's new heartbreaking adventure game Blackwood Crossing, and CD Projekt Red's GOTY edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

The organization's initial clients included the likes of Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, members of the Black Panthers and several inmates from the Attica prison riots.

In addition, Gutekunst reiterated the support for funding of Prisoners Legal Services (PLS), which the Association helped initiate after the Attica prison riot in 1971.

He escaped during a prison riot, made his way back to sea, and later on arrived in New Orleans.

That means a prison riot might be coming soon.

Not exact matches

Thirty years ago, a riot at Peterhead Prison, Scotland, got so out of hand that British special forces had to intervene with smoke bombs and stun guns.

The difference is Catholics will not act like bafoons and riot if those associated with the scandals were sent to prison.

I was pleased when I read in The New Yorker that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the three members of the Russian feminist punk - rock band Pussy Riot serving time in prison for «hooliganism motivated by religious hatred ``, spends her time in a small four woman cell reading.

So three members of the Russian feminist band Pussy Riot have been convicted to two years in prison for «hooliganism motivated by religious hatred».

Two of the members of Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk rock band, are still in remote Russian prisons.

The pro-Kremlin United Russia party proposed the law introducing prison terms for religious offences after a protest against Putin's increasingly close ties with the Church by punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow's main cathedral last year.

After that six weeks in Sanford, McLain spent short stretches at two other jails before he wound up in what he regards as the very bottom of the belly of the beast, the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, the federal prison that two months after his release would become a site of rioting, destruction and hostage - taking by Cuban - born inmates.

There is a real irony in Diaz hosting Abrazo Boricuaparticularly with his expressed desire to «protect» his community.I guess that desire doesn't extend to the women of his community (excuse the pun) because the Grand Poobah of the parade this year is a wife beater — who SERVED TIME IN PRISON for the crime.His enablers at the Puerto Rican Day Riot committee attribute his violence to a youthful error — ignoring the fact that he was in his FORTIES at the time.Check out which politicians march and which do not and ask yourself if they'd ignore a violent anti — semite or racist or homophobe being so honored.Once more women in that parade are relegated to the position of tarted up and half naked — even the pre teens — but not worthy of respect.So much for Diaz» «protection».

Mr Graef said sending many of those who committed crime to prison would only make the problems underlying the rioting worse, however.

Two men are already facing four years in prison for inciting riots on Facebook.

The riots that beset the streets of England's cities this month were a «one — off», the prisons minister has said.

In 2006, Martin Narey, the former director general of the prison service, claimed that Blunkett had once told him to use the army and machine guns, to deal with rioting prisoners.

The violence, contraband, self inflicted deaths and riots in our prisons are a problem now, not two years from now.

Anniversary of Attica Riot Raises Concerns For Prison Safety, Procedures Thursday September 12, 2013 at 05:27 pm

«Smoking is to be banned in all prisons in England and Wales in a move that runs the risk of rioting by inmates, The Times has learnt.

With last year's riots putting an extra strain on jails, experts are worried that even the slightest change to the prison population could knock the Ministry of Justice's spending plans off course.

The number of inmates in England and Wales hit a record high of 87,000 last Friday, a result of the prison population rising by 1,000 since the riots took place.

The staff of Paste, a digital entertainment and culture magazine based near Atlanta, has ranked Auburn's Prison City's Mass Riot IPA as the best India Pale Ale in the United States.

Due to his interest in Penal Reform, Garcia was asked by NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller to serve on the Mediation Committee he formed and went into the 1971 riots at Attica State Prison.

Restricted visiting rights was one of the problems identified by Lord Justice Woolf in his inquiry into the riot at Strangeways prison in Manchester in 1990.

Two years ago this month the Woolf report into riots in Britain's prisons was published.

A prison wing is back under control after riot officers were drafted in to deal with a disturbance in which staff were reportedly attacked with pool balls.