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...dirty shame that the pay is so low in the workhouse at Attica. If they get a raise, maybe I'll quit working for a bank and rob one instead...
...Your writers show a sad lack of knowledge of black literature. The poem that you quoted in your Attica story, supposedly written by an inmate, is actually by Claude McKay, one of the first major Negro poets...
...PRISONS Attica Aftermath In the wake of the tragic Attica uprising, New York state officials were trying to ensure that it can never happen again. They talk faintly of prison reform, much more passionately of better security. Shaken more than ever before in its history, the state prison system is determined to do better what it has always done before...
...armed. The rest of the prison system would thus be rid of its worst troublemakers, who then would be able to make trouble in one explosive spot. "It would be a present day Devils Island," complains Republican State Senator John Dunne, who has embarked on a one-man Attica investigation. "The ethnic makeup would be almost entirely black. It could result in a black concentration camp...
...More Assaults. Until the maxi-maxi is built, the guards at Attica are insisting on tightening up prison discipline. They blame the revolt on a too permissive atmosphere. "We never considered our job dangerous," says Attica Mayor Richard Miller, who also serves as a prison guard. "There have been more assaults on officers in the last year and a half than in all my years before. It just didn't used to happen...