Prison riot
A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners in attempt to force change or express a grievance.
Prison riots have received little academic attention. The papers that do exist tend to draw a connection between prison conditions (such as prison overcrowding) and riots, or discuss the dynamics of the modern prison riot. In addition, a large proportion of papers focus on specific cases of prison riots. Others recent research deals with strike and repertoires of contention of inmate-workers.