HM Prison Armagh 1979, Agnes Wallace (40), a prison officer, was shot dead and three colleagues were injured in an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) gun and grenade attack outside the prison. The prison was the scene of a protest by female Irish republican prisoners demanding the reinstatement of political status, although the numbers involved were much smaller than in the Maze (also known as Long Kesh) men's prison. As all women prisoners in Northern Ireland already had the right to wear their own clothes, they did not stage any sort of blanket protest, but the no wash protest included the smearing of
Agodi prison break with force, beating up the officer with an attempt to release other prisoners from their cells. Police arrived at the scene to curtail the incipient prison break and this resulted in a clash between the inmates and the police. This resulted in the death of eight prisoners and injury of eighteen others. The prison break was unsuccessful as no prisoner was able to escaped from the prison. Mauren Omeli, the Oyo state prison controller general who confirm the attack claimed that the aggrieved prisoners attempted to escape over the fear of inadequate medical care. Agodi prison break The Agodi prison