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The Mock Prison Riot: Where guards play jail

Clark, a West Virginia Division of Corrections employee who runs a training business on the side, has arrived in Moundsville, population 9,300, for the annual Mock Prison Riot — a kind of arms show, training seminar and prison guard beauty pageant rolled into one over the course of four days in the spring.

Since 1997, the event, which until recently was funded by the Justice Department, has attracted hundreds of guards and sheriff’s deputies from across the country, and in past years, teams have traveled from Israel, Japan, Italy, Brazil and elsewhere to attend. It is now run by the West Virginia Division of Corrections.

For these men and women, who see their lives as a constant and hidden struggle with the worst of the worst, the Mock Prison Riot offers a rare moment of public camaraderie and international solidarity.

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