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...gave the order for state troopers to storm Attica prison. Forty-three men died, most of them prisoners. A Rockefeller-appointed commission later blamed the deaths on police gunfire, but no policeman has yet been indicted--and Rockefeller is not puzzled by that...
Despite a state commission report which maintained that the Attica deaths were all the results of police fire, no indictment has been returned against any state trooper or the people who commanded them--the governor and prison officials. Instead, 60 prisoners involved in the revolt stand charged with murder and kidnapping in connection with the protest and police massacre...
...aftermath of the Attica rebellion has only reaffirmed the justice of the prisoners' protest. Roger Champen, an Attica inmate during the revolt, told a Harvard audience last week that New York has done nothing to relieve the conditions which led to the outbreak: slave wages for prison labor, inedible food, guard brutality, restricted political and religious expression, censorship of mail, poor health care and inadequate educational facilities. Only the number of guards has been increased...
...Attica Defense Fund needs contributions desperately, and the National Prisoners' Reform Association, a national union of prison inmates, needs people to help community groups organize on behalf of prisoners' rights. Interested students can contact the Massachusetts Lawyers' Guild in Cambridge, or Joseph Sandler '75, chairman of the Massachusetts Student Coalition on Correctional Change, through Phillips Brooks House...
...contribution of time, effort, and money against the forces of social control which Attica and Rockefeller represent is the only proper response to a new drive for power by a man who has valued power more heavily than human life...