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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.
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 ...
Between its founding and the year 1973, New York had operated only 18 prisons. After the new focus on prison administration brought by the Attica Prison riot in September 1971, and a new influx of prisoners created by the new stricter Rockefeller Drug Laws starting in 1973, the corrections system was forced to expand dramatically. [15]
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 ...
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Blood in the Water has been subject to bans in at least eight U.S. state prison systems, in Arizona, [3] Illinois, [4] [5] New Hampshire, [6] New York, [7] North Carolina, [8] Ohio, [9] Texas, [10] and Virginia. [8] The author filed lawsuits against the state prison systems of Illinois and New York on account of the bans.
See data chart below. Date: 28 July 2009 - date of original file here on the Commons. Source: References: Derivative of File:US incarceration timeline.gif - see its description for detailed data sourcing. Some sources for stats for years covered beyond that in File:US incarceration timeline.gif are below. BJS is U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.