Atlantic Institution - Maximum Security Prison
New Brunswick, Canada

January 26th, 2007 - 62 prisoners from Unit 1 refused to go back to their cells, lit fires, and damaged several light fixtures, windows and other material on the ranges, according to prison officials and the Canadian Press news agency.

Prison guards used pepper-spray and put out the fires. There were no reported injuries and prisoners were said to have returned voluntarily to their cells shortly after the warden read the Riot Act. The prisoners were then put on lockdown (for who knows how long).

Officials say the prisoners reacted when a fellow prisoner was put in segregation for having contraband food (prisoners aren't allowed food in their cells).

January 8th, 2007 - Nine prisoners from Unit 4 refused to return to their cells at around 7:00pm and the prison's Emergency Response Team (ERT) was called in.

Assistant warden Stephane Breau said that no force was used against the prisoners and negotiations went peacefully. The nine prisoners were put on indefinite lock-down.

"They had demands. They were asking for changes to institutional routine" Breau said.

December 31st, 2006 / January 1st, 2007 - At around 10:30pm on New Year's Eve, some 68 prisoners in two seperate units refused to go back to their cells, according to assistant warden Stephane Breau and corporate news sources. The prisoners went back to their cells around dawn. Breau said it had nothing to with an alleged assault by one prisoner against another the day before, which resulted in one of the prisoners being put in segregation and another getting treatment at the regional hospital.

"They didn't ask for any demands", said Breau, "It was actually quite calm. They basically sat there, played cards and board games until they could go back to their cells.... So it would seem reasonable to assume that this was all related to New Year's Eve. They took the opportunity to celebrate in their own way."

The following night, 68 prisoners in a different unit refused to go back to their cells until 10:00am.

Breau said 135 of the institution's 219 prisoners were involved in these actions and were then put under strict lockdown. The rest of the prisoners were put in segregation units (for who knows how long).

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