1990 Strangeways Prison riot with many excerpts from the letters being appended to the finished report. The "Woolf Report" was published on 25 February 1991, and blamed the loss of control of the prison on the prison officers abandoning the gates outside the chapel, which "effectively handed the prison to the prisoners". Woolf described the conditions inside Strangeways in the months leading up to the riot as "intolerable", and viewed a "combination of errors" by staff and management at the prison and Prison Service as a central contributing factor to the riot. He also blamed the failure of successive governments to "provide the resources
2016 New Bilibid Prison riot 2016 New Bilibid Prison riot A riot in New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa, Philippines occurred on early morning of September 28, 2016, killing one inmate and wounding three other inmates—all of whom were convicted in an illegal drug trade—and one former police officer. On early morning of September 28, 2016, a riot erupted inside Building 14 at New Bilibid Prison. Initial reports from acting Bureau of Corrections director Rolando Asuncion said that one inmate witnessed three other convicts, namely Peter Co, Tony Co and Vicente Sy, using "methamphetamine" moments before the riot started. The inmate then alerted former police officer