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- <text id=90TT0918>
- <title>
- Apr. 16, 1990: World Notes:Britain
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 16, 1990 Colossal Colliders:Smash!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 37
- World Notes
- BRITAIN
- "Explosion Of Evil"
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Only a few days earlier, the governor of Manchester's
- Strange ways Prison had pronounced it "the fastest-improving
- establishment in the country." Not for long. As if to mock that
- boast, most of the prison's 1,648 inmates went on a rampage
- last week to protest against overcrowding and outdated
- facilities. At least two died and scores were injured in the
- red brick relic, which was built in 1868 to incarcerate 970
- men.
- </p>
- <p> Rioting started at a Sunday-morning service when one man
- charged down the aisle, hit the chaplain in the face, grabbed
- his microphone and started yelling obscenities into it. As the
- revolt spread, inmates brutalized other prisoners and smashed
- and set fire to the facility. Some climbed on roofs and threw
- tiles at riot police who gathered below. Strange ways governor
- Brendan O'Friel described the outburst as "an explosion of evil...possibly the worst incident in the history of the prison
- service."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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