At Rockefeller's request, he was sent to Attica during the uprising to represent the governor and to help quell the riot and appease the inmates. Frank Smith was an inmate at the prison and acted ...
Announcer: Four days had passed since the 1,200 inmates at the Attica State Correctional Facility in New York had taken over. They had 38 hostages. They made demands to the State Correctional ...
It rained heavily the night before the retaking of New York's Attica Correctional Facility. A guard, William Quinn, had been killed. Negotiations had ended. The men on the D yard waited for the ...
The brutalization of human beings in the huge American prison gulag, with its nearly 2 million inmates, accounting for about 25 percent of the world’s prisoners, is entirely routine.