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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

By : Heather Ann Thompson

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Book Synopsis :

The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state?s violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice including information never released to the public published to coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary of this historic event.On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, during the four long days and nights that followed, the inmates negotiated with state officials for improved living conditions. On September 13, the state abruptly ended talks and sent hundreds of heavily armed state troopers and corrections officers to retake the prison by force. In the ensuing gunfire, thirty-nine men were killed, hostages as well as prisoners, and close to one hundred were severely injured. After the prison was secured, troopers and officers brutally retaliated against the prisoners during the weeks

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Author : Heather Ann Thompson

Pages : 752 pages

Publisher : Vintage

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 1400078245

ISBN-13 : 9781400078240

 

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