Motion picture film and videotapes of Attica Correctional Facility riot, 1971.
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New York (State). Special Commission on Attica
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On September 9, 1971 a group of inmates at Attica Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in western New York, began an uprising which lasted for five days. One guard, William Quinn, was killed and forty guards and civilian employees were taken hostage. The prisoners managed to gain control over parts of the prison, including D-yard. Negotiations began and demands were issued for such things as improved living conditions and educational opportunities, but the talks fell thr...
Attica Correctional Facility
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Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison housing males convicted of felonies who are 21 years of age or older committed directly by the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eight judicial districts of New York . It also receives felons 16 years of age and older by transfer from the Elmira Reception Center or other institutions. A 1926 report of the Crime Commission of New York's Sub-Commission on Penal Institutions stated that the state's prisons were operating at ...
