In the aftermath of the Strangeways riots, a new 10-year sentence was introduced for prison mutiny, which is largely why there have been very few riots since.
In contrast to his proposed reforms, Baker also proposed the introduction of a new offence of "prison mutiny" carrying a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment, stating "The events of last April marked a watershed in the history of prison service.
Not surprisingly, summer often brings prison mutinies.
Since any imaginable modern state in any imaginable circumstance was always going to feel duty-bound to retake a prison after a mutiny, a forcible reconquest needed to be done either quickly or not at all: had it happened the next morning, when state troopers stood ready and the prisoners hadn't yet dug in, it might have been much less violent.
A month before the national elections, and while leading the polls, he received a 10-year prison sentence for his 1996 mutiny.
PARIS — Troops had to be called out and were compelled to make use of their rifles to quell a mutiny at Rochefort prison yesterday [Nov. 19] evening, in the course of which the chief warder and his wife were murdered by the convicts and three other persons were killed.
On 6 October 1831, navy artillerymen, held under suspicion of plotting a mutiny, escaped the presiganga (prison ship) in which they had been confined.
All the heads of the mutiny were sentenced to prison at Carmen de Patagones, and the militias that took part in it were dissolved.
"I believe being an Aquino himself, he's in a position to complete that promise, the legacy of the mother," said Mr. Trillanes, who was elected to the Senate last May while serving a prison sentence for his part in the mutiny.
Unable to reach Duncan's flagship, the King instead rewarded the fleet as a whole by pardoning 180 men condemned for their role in the Nore Mutiny and held aboard the prison hulk in the River Medway.
When the media, opposition legislators and prisoners'-rights groups call attention to the jails, ministers say they are promoting prison violence to undermine the government.With El Rodeo's mutiny resolved, and Mr Chávez back home after spending four weeks in Cuba to undergo surgery for cancer, the sense of a power vacuum in Venezuela may now abate.
