Sometime in the middle of the night, no doubt with van Gelder's help, the inmates staged a revolt.

The inmates of San Quentin Prison staged The Firebugs in June, 1965.

As it became clear that they, too, would be executed when the work was finished, the inmates, led by Vladimir Davydov, staged a mass race to the prison walls at dawn.

Last June, one inmate staged the first escape ever from Rikers Island, an incident Correction Board officials link to crowding.

In December 2004 a security alert was sparked when two inmates staged a roof-top protest at Hindley Prison.

Sia S. remembers when the inmates at the immense, octagonal stone central prison here staged their first protest.

Some 5,000 inmates at other jails across the country staged sympathy rebellions, but all of them ended Sunday with assurances there would be no reprisals.

Later, on 19 November 1943, inmates at Janowska staged an uprising and attempted a mass escape.

In 1938 inmates staged a mass escape.