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Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees), all but one guard and three inmates were killed by law enforcement gunfire when the state retook control of the prison on the final day of the uprising. [1] [2] [3] The Attica Uprising has been described as an historic event in the prisoners' rights movement. [4] [5]
Attica Correctional Facility. / 42.8500°N 78.2717°W / 42.8500; -78.2717. Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison campus in the Town of Attica, New York, [ 2][ 3] operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. It was constructed in the 1930s in response to earlier riots within the ...
The New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, which took place on February 2 and 3, 1980, at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken hostage.
The images are haunting: In black and white film and photographs, naked men, most of them Black, some of them bloodied, all stand in a prison yard with their
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The majority of inmates, many from New York City, were Black and Latino. The corrections’ staff in rural Attica was all-white and likely rarely interacted with people of color outside of prison ...
A group of prisoners at Attica Correctional Facility alleged that various crimes were committed against them and their fellow inmates before, during, and after the 1971 prison uprising, and filed a lawsuit in federal district court to compel the state of New York to create an independent investigation of the events surrounded the Attica Prison ...
In the months before the Attica prison uprising in September 1971, New York "kept the prison needlessly dangerous" and denied inmates basic rights. New York apology is 5 decades overdue to victims ...