Attica
STATE PRISON UPRISING SEPTEMBER 13, 1971
George Jackson the most famous political prisoner in the 70’s and leader of the Black Panther Party was incarcerated at San Quentin Prison in California. He was killed by the State on August 21, 1971. Because of this inmates organized a hunger strike and wore black arm bands.
George Jackson’s revolutionary writings in his book he had written “Soledad Brother” was passed from inmate to inmate inside State Prison, which had an enormous impact on the prisoners awareness of their feelings. Mr. Jackson’s death lead to the direct uprising of New York’s State Correctional facility which was approximately two ...
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prisoners were political, poor and maltreated. Hygienic conditions were very bad and medical care was practically non-existent. Prisoners average pay was 40 cents a day for manufacturing mattresses, shoes and license plates, prisoners never saw a lawyer, were prevented from defending themselves, were isolated, raped, harassed and murdered. They decided to go on strike April 9, 1971, which is considered a direct defiance against the authority of the state.
September 9, 1971, 1,500 men in cell block D took over Attica Prison, taking prison guards as hostages. All Black, Latino and White prisoners had united. By the uprising they were trying to force the state to address to their demands. They had a list of 27 demands that covered legal rights, repression, work, food, hygiene and other critical issues in regards to prison conditions.
Four major demands, they wanted the Warden removed, participants of the uprising to receive full amnesty , demanded union recognition and ...
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10 hostages had not died from the hands of the inmates but from friendly fire from other prison guards.
In a 1992 trial, a jury found that the former deputy warden, Karl Pfeil, of Attica Prison was liable for overseeing brutal reprisals against inmates. Surviving Inmates and prison employees during the time of the September 13, 1971 riot, described at the trial how state troopers and guards forced naked inmates to run over broken glass past a gauntlet of correction officers swinging nightsticks.
Of hostages found dead, two apparently had been killed before the day of the riot and one of them castrated. Nine prisoners were taken to area hospitals for surgery and others were ...
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