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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.
Published in 1972, the first historical account of the Attica Prison Uprising was written by The New York State Special Commission on Attica and was entitled Attica: The Official Report. [75] Published in 1974, The Brothers of Attica is a first hand account written by a former Attica prisoner and Nation of Islam member named Richard X. Clark.
It rained heavily the night before the retaking of New York's Attica Correctional Facility. A guard, William Quinn, had been killed. ... The California state prison system has been under official ...
Despite the protections won by the Attica rebellion, prisoners are calling for the public’s attention to the horrific conditions they endure 50 Years After Attica, Prisoners Are Still Protesting ...
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.
In the months before the Attica uprising in September 1971, New York 'kept the prison needlessly dangerous' and denied inmates basic rights.
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt is a non-fiction book by anthropologist Orisanmi Burton. It draws on oral histories collected from politically active prisoners and combines that with a wide array of rarely analyzed archival documents, offering a radical re-narration of the Attica Prison Rebellion.
A Chemung County grand jury indicted James Lee for murder and attempted murder in the 2018 beating death of Shida Gilliam, and the beating of a woman.