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1969 stockade riot
[edit]On June 5, 1969, about 150 prisoners in the Fort Dix stockade rioted, burning mattresses, breaking windows and throwing footlockers, fire extinguishers and and equipment. Thirty-eight prisoners were subsequently charged with participating in a riot. In the ensuing courts martial, abuse by guards and living conditions in the two-story World-War-II-era wooden barracks were blamed for sparking the riot.
there for being AWOL, rioted in an effort to expose the various unsanitary conditions there.[1][2][3]
- ^ "150 Riot at Ft. Dix Stockade; Fires Set and Windows Broken". The New York Times. June 6, 1969.
Prisoners in the Fort Dix stockade set mattress fires, smashed windows and hurled footlockers, beds and other equipment tonight in what an Army spokesman characterized as a "disturbance."
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Crowell, Joan (1974). Fort Dix Stockade: Our Prison Camp Next Door. Berlin: Links. ISBN 0825630355.
- ^ Wallechinsky, David (1975). The People's Almanac. Garden City: Doubleday. p. 68. ISBN 0385040601.