1989 Polish prison riots
Series of prison riots and uprisings in Communist Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 1989 Polish prison riots refers to an outbreak of violence, which took place at four maximum-security prisons[1] in northwestern Poland in late 1989. The riots were the result of political changes which had taken place in Poland in early and mid-1989 (see Polish Round Table Agreement, Polish legislative election, 1989). Inmates in several prisons hoped that collapse of the Communist system would result in the release of repeated offenders, due to an amnesty, but it did not happen. In the riots that ensued, seven people were killed, and hundreds were wounded.[2]