Guards waited 4 hours before moving in.

Only 2 guards armed with pepper spray for each housing unit? Fuuuuck that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/us/south-carolina-prison-riot.html

A bloody melee in a maximum-security prison in South Carolina raged for more than four hours Sunday night before guards moved in to stop it, state officials said Monday. The riot, sparked by gangs within the prison who were warring over territory, money and contraband, left seven inmates dead and 17 injured, many of them stabbed or slashed by improvised blades.

Law enforcement personnel waited to enter three troubled housing units at the Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in Bishopville, S.C., about 40 miles east of Columbia, until they could assemble enough officers to deal with the problem safely, the head of the state prison system said on Monday.

In the end, no prison guards were injured. But one inmate who witnessed the riot told The Associated Press that felled prisoners’ bodies began stacking up while the guard stayed outside for hours.

Bryan P. Stirling, director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, defended the response in a news conference Monday. He said that when the first of a series of “inmate-on-inmate altercations” broke out at 7:15 p.m. Sunday, the handful of guards on the scene, knowing they were outnumbered, backed out and called for support. The first large response team did not enter the site of the first fight until 11:30 p.m., he said.

“We are not going to just send one or two officers in there,” Mr. Stirling said. “We’re going to gather a force that is safe for all our officers, and we’re going to go in and we’re going to take that dorm back with force. And if there’s any resistance, we’ll be able to put that resistance down immediately.”

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

prolly came from folk that were injured just laying there and bleeding out for hours before the guards moved in


nobody even wanna talk abt the US prison problem tho
out of sight, out of mind
they would ship ninjas to the moon or antartica if they could

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because there aren't enough guards and they're not going to do shit for several hours.

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Is there any space to be neutral in a prison riot?

Can you just hide out somewhere and wait for it to simmer down.

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my wife loves watching prison docs and that shit gives me nightmares.

and even if you are cool with everyone there is always that one dude who doesn't like you just cause you are a Golden State fan and celebrated too loud after they won last year.

I haven't heard a word about this on TV and I'm in NC.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

the past couple of weeks.

I can confidently say the guards had something to do with it.
It got out of control, but the initial spark was guard sanctioned. Apparently its rare for riots to spontaneously happen because prison is effectively its own society with rules, etc. Everyone works together to ensure some kind of fucked up order. Not sure if one gang paid off the guards, if the guards felt one gang wasnt giving them their due, or if a couple of guards were bored and wanted to see some fights.

this shit was over dope (the pack), the splitting and selling of it. Also yes, the guards sanctioned it.

It was allegedly tossed over the fence and instead of being shared, someone decided to keep it.

I doubt the fallout behind this is over.

So grisly. so intriguing.

all these rap nxggas lying.

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