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Prison Riots as an Emergency Situation in Countries in Transition - Case of Serbia

Regim of personal rule of Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown in massive demonstration of more tha half million people on the streets of Belgrade on October 5th 2000. Transition towards establishing democratic government lasted for three month. In this interregnum one of the major challenges for new political leaders were synchronized prison riots in several Serbian prisons. The main request of prisoners in this violent riots was amnesty. Managing of this crisis was very complex due to very sensitive political circumstances. Very similar scenario of prison riots happened six years later, but in different sociopolitical context, and prison management that have learned some lessons from previous events. Paper is dealing with those two crisis situations and critical analysis of the way they were managed by the prison authorities, police and the government. Author is analyzing mentioned riots in the framework of threshold model proposed by Arjen Boin and William A.R. Rattray stating that prison riots are the products of administrative and institutional decline, intertwining processes that typically stretch over considerable periods of time.

Prison riots; crisis situation; countries in transition; Serbia

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