Word: attica
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Grounded historically in the six-day Attica prison revolt, the course will consider both classical and modern theories of disobedience and social protest from Plato's suicide to the Attica inmates' demands...
...Square feet allotted to well-behaved inmates of Attica prison...
...mind that led to Webdale's death. Untreated, Goldstein will become increasingly anxious and depressed, and could have a serious, damaging breakdown. But having narrowly averted his imprisonment in the first trial, Goldstein's lawyers feel they have little choice. Which is more cruel, a life sentence in Attica as a schizophrenic, or abetting a nervous breakdown on the witness stand to give your client a chance at getting treatment? These do not seem like choices befitting a civilized society. (A law was passed last November in New York that calls for involuntary hospitalization for up to 72 hours when...
SETTLEMENT PROPOSED. FOR 1,281 ATTICA INMATES, in a 25-year-old class action that stemmed from guard-inflicted beatings after the 1971 upstate New York prison uprising that left 43 dead and 80 injured; for $8 million from the State of New York, by a federal judge's order; in Rochester...