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Discuss inmate riots and disturbances. Include factors that cause them and response team roles and goals. How can prisons try to prepare for these types of events? What preventive actions can prison administrators take to reduce inmate unrest and lessen the chances of a precipitating event starting a riot?

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The expert discusses inmates, riots and disturbances in prisons.

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Riots in prisons stem from a myriad of factors ranging from gang violence, squalid conditions, inhumane treatment by guards, diversions for more sinister plots such as escape, and general unrest. The impetus for a riot can be predicated upon something as small as a minor fight between inmates from rival races. Regardless of the reason why the riot begins, several factors in a prison make the probability of a riot occurring more conducive including ill treatment by guards of inmates, denying inmates human rights, allowing gangs to control the "yard", and lax security measures.

To negate against riots, prisons must have measures ...

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