Word: atticas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural extension of injustice in society. Most people ignored the issue. In the late 1960s, things began to change. Young prisoners who had been involved in political struggles on the outside increased prisoners' awareness of their need for solidarity. George Jackson's writing and the rebellion at Attica began to increase public awareness...
...previous rights to call meetings and communicate with its ex-prisoner board members. Observers maintain that there had been no major blow-up in Walpole since May because of the presence of the NPRA, though the union did organize a boycott of a Christmas dinner in support of Attica...
...social failure. It benefits more than anyone else the people who run it--not the victims of crime, not the taxpayer, and certainly not the prisoner. Those people who fight to keep the prisons at a status quo are thinking of nothing but their own self interest. As Attica leader Roger Champen said in a speech at Harvard in December, "Prison is an industry, and industry must have its slaves...
...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...
...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...