1990 Strangeways Prison riot administrative offices on the lower floor and the chapel on the upper floor. Remand prisoners were held in wings G, H, I and K of a separate prison, linked to the main prison through workshops and a kitchen. The Certified Normal Accommodation Figure for Strangeways, the number of prisoners the prison was designed to hold, was 970. The population of the prison had increased in the months before the riot, from 1,417 in January 1990 to a peak of 1,658 on 27 March. On 1 April, the prison contained 1,647 prisoners – about 925 convicted adult prisoners, 500 remand prisoners
Kaohsiung Prison riot is the first ever prison riot with officials held hostage in the history of Taiwan. A subsequent investigation found that the head prison warden was unaware of the hostage crisis for 30 minutes after it began. On 26 February, the Ministry of Justice announced that 23 prison officials had been reprimanded for their handling of the incident. The head warden was demoted and given a demerit. Demerits were also served to two of his top aides, and to the head of the Agency of Corrections. By August 2016, the head warden, deputy warden and head guard were no longer in