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- The 1990 Strangeways Prison riot was a 25-day prison riot and rooftop protest at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England. The riot began on 1 April 1990 when prisoners took control of the prison chapel, and quickly spread throughout most of the prison. The incident ended on 25 April when the final five prisoners were removed from the rooftop.
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One prisoner was killed during the riot, and 147 prison officers and 47 prisoners were injured. Much of the prison was damaged or destroyed, with the cost of repairs coming to £55 million (equivalent to £158 million in 2023). It was the longest prison riot in British penal history.
Mar 23, 2015 · On Sunday 1 April 1990, about 300 inmates filled the Strangeways prison chapel, where they listened to a Church of England sermon. One prisoner, Paul Taylor, interrupted proceedings by...
Oct 12, 2024 · Despite a re-build following the infamous riots of 1990, Strangeways prison remains a crumbling Victorian monument to a grim past showing all its 156 years. No wonder the council wants it...
Jan 1, 2023 · The maximum-security prison has housed some of the region's vilest murderers, rapists and paedophiles and was also infamous in its past for Dickensian and degrading conditions.
- Sophie Halle-Richards
Apr 12, 2020 · On 1 April 1990 the country was brought to a stand still when shocking images of prisoners perched on the rooftop of Manchester's HMP Strangeways were broadcast to the nation. That was the...
- Ramazani Mwamba
The riot at Strangeways turned into a siege lasting 25 days - the longest in British penal history. Early reports of high casualties proved unfounded. Two men died - one prisoner, and a prison...
Apr 1, 2015 · Former prisoners describe the explosion of violence that erupted on 1 April 1990, when 1,600 angry inmates escaped from their cells and ran amok through the prison.
