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  2. Attica Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    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 New York state prisons.

  3. Attica Prison riot - Wikipedia

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    The Attica Prison riot took place at the state prison in Attica, New York; it started on September 9, 1971, and ended on September 13 with the highest number of fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings. Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees), all but one guard and three inmates were ...

  4. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and ...

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    Thompson argues that the Attica uprising and New York state's response represented shifting American approaches to incarceration and policy. The reverberations of this watershed event has continued to influence America's prison system. Thompson served as lead historical consultant on the Showtime documentary Attica, released in 2021. [1] [2]

  5. 50 years after Attica uprising, families want apology

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    The Attica uprising began Sept. 9, 1971, when inmates upset over living conditions seized control of part of the prison and took members of its staff hostage. 50 years after Attica uprising ...

  6. 50 years after the Attica prison riot, a new documentary ...

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    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

  7. 50 years after Attica: The unfinished business of our nation ...

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  8. Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v. Rockefeller

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    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 Riot.

  9. Elizabeth Fink - Wikipedia

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    Fink was a founder and senior partner at the Law Office of Elizabeth M. Fink, a civil rights, prisoner rights and criminal defense firm in Brooklyn, New York. [4] The Attica lawsuit consumed much of her time until 2000, when prisoners won a $12 million judgment from the state of New York but received neither an apology nor admission of responsibility from the state.

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