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1969 stockade riot
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.