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- WORLD, Page 37World NotesBRITAIN"Explosion Of Evil"
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- 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- last week to protest against overcrowding and outdated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.
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- 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."
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