Sentence examples for prison insurrection from inspiring English sources

Attica prison revolt, prison insurrection in 1971, lasting from September 9 to September 13, during which inmates in New York's maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility seized control of the prison and took members of the prison staff hostage to demand improved living conditions.

Mam Sonando, a well-known journalist critical of Mr Hun Sen, was last month sentenced to 20 years in prison, for leading an "insurrection" in April, for which 13 women had also been jailed.

His adversary is a general who has been stripped of his rank and imprisoned for disobeying orders — Robert Redford as a vision of mild-mannered prowess, a man with such natural charisma that he doesn't have to raise his voice to lead a prison population of thugs in an insurrection.

Once a paramilitary leader allied with Fidel Castro, Gutiérrez Menoyo broke with the revolution, led a failed insurrection in 1964 and spent the next two decades in prison.

1937 Court Rules Against Georgia Law WASHINGTON — In a five-to-four decision, the United States Supreme Court today [April 26] invalidated a sixty-six-year-old Georgia law prohibiting insurrection against the state, under which a Negro Communist had been sentenced to a prison term of from eighteen to twenty years.

Although little is known of his actions in Canada for the remainder of the war, he was rumored to have been part of a plot to incite massive insurrections in New England as a diversion, allowing fellow Confederate agent Thomas Hines to lead a prison break at Camp Douglas in Chicago.

Planning an insurrection?

There was a small insurrection.

Sylvia had begun the insurrection.

The insurrection was quickly crushed.

It was a sheep insurrection.