1999 riot in TN's largest prison

Watch RJ Balaji starring Sorgavaasal yesterday and really liked it. Thankfully, before watching the movie I read online that it was based on a real incident. Otherwise I'm not sure if I'd have been engaged enough Anyways, after watching the movie, I had to dig in and find out about the real incident in detail. Here's a news article from 1999 for those interested. I also read that this affected the state politics a lot at that time. If there's anything interesting you know about that time which is not mentioned in the article, please do share!