Word: attica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State Corrections Commissioner Russell G. Oswald, a chunky, earnest man who, before moving to New York as a top parole officer, had won high praise from penologists for modernizing Wisconsin's prisons, rushed to Attica from his Albany office. He arrived...
Many of the rebels, of course, were in prison for violent and ugly crimes; many were there for lesser offenses. Yet by and large, at Attica they were treated without distinction, as numbers or niggers or animals to be caged. Most penologists point out that the key to dealing with inmates is to know them?and their leaders?well. In the end, the major failure at Attica may be that the authorities simply did not know what the desperate men behind their walls really wanted, thought or felt. Until the uprising became another symbol of America's many agonies...
Many of the demands that emerged in the Attica rebellion were first raised in July in a tough "manifesto" sent to Oswald and Rockefeller by a group of inmates called "the Attica Liberation Faction." The paper labeled Attica a "classic institution of authoritative inhumanity upon men," but added: "We are trying to do this in a democratic fashion. We feel there is no need to dramatize our demands...
Governor Rockefeller was attending a Washington meeting of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board when aides telephoned him about the Attica uprising. He quickly agreed...
...ambiguous?and irresponsible?reference to the hundred or so demonstrators, both black and white, who had arrived in Attica. It could have been taken by the inmates as a reason to hold...