Word: atticas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charges which had been leveled at the New Crusader during the 1960's--murder, bribery, extortion, embezzlement. They knew that the Teamsters Union is the only major union in the country which actively supports President Nixon--the man who sent a congratulatory telegram to Governor Rockefeller after the Attica rebellion one year ago. And so, when the question period began, these students took every opportunity available to crack holes in the New Crusader...
...haven't learned the lesson--if we haven't seen the threads between Dresden, Nagasaki, Attica, Jackson State and Kent State--then we don't understand the violence of our time," he concluded...
...surface, Attica has changed. A new superintendent, Ernest L. Montanye, a beefy former guard, is trying to make the prison an easier place to do time. The screens in the visiting room are gone, and visitors now include friends and common-law wives. Prison officials still read inmates' mail, but they have relaxed the censorship of newspapers and magazines. Other improvements include an inmate-administration "liaison" committee, a second shower a week, soft drinks and health foods in the commissary, an orientation course for new prisoners, the hiring of 21 black and Spanish-speaking guards (total number...
...Attica remains troubled. In the end, the most important aspect of any prison is the relationships between the keepers and the kept. "It's hard doing time here," says Inmate Robert Johnson, 34. "It's the officers' attitude. Hold it up. Slow it down. Constant bickering." Some guards still call black inmates "nigger," and the doctor is accused of mixing arbitrary racial attitudes with his medicine. The food is still bad. At lunch the liver was leathery and the mashed potatoes cold and lumpy. Everyone at the table insisted that conditions are worse now than a year...
Like most half-century-old prison fortresses, Attica was designed to confine and punish men rather than rehabilitate them. There are few opportunities for vocational training, counseling or education. In an effort to reduce tension, all correctional officers have lately attended ten hours of "conflict reduction" classes at local colleges. But as Superintendent Montanye sadly observes: "I am unable to point out any really new, progressive programs for the prisoners. And the human situation is abnormal. All we can do is bring tensions down to a level where, maybe, men can live decently...