Word: atticas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attica Prisoner Charles Horatio Crowley ("Brother Flip...
...cover story reported the sense of desperation in many prisons, but also noted certain hopeful signs of beginning improvement. Last week, as anxiety turned to bloodshed at Attica, members of nine of our domestic bureaus re-examined U.S. prisons for a new cover story on one of the had most gnawing failures. The promise of last winter had not been fulfilled quickly enough...
TIME'S Nation section this week attempts to answer a number of questions: precisely what happened at Attica and why, what the alternatives were for the inmates and the authorities, and what Attica will mean for the future of prison reform. Our coverage was supervised by New York Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, and the reporting from Attica was done by a trio of correspondents. James Willwerth went to the prison when the uprising started. Having covered the Newark riots, been gassed at the 1968 Chicago disorders and spent a year in South Viet Nam and Cambodia, Willwerth is hardly...
...powerful ingredient of our report on Attica, we feel, are the pictures, both color and black-and-white. They were obtained by Picture Editor John Durniak and his staff. Before selecting the photographs that appear in this week's issue, they pored over thousands of negatives- including color shots of the carnage taken inside the walls of Attica...
...That was Attica. For some time to come in the U.S., that word will not be primarily identified with the plain upon which ancient Athens nurtured philosophy and democracy. Nor will it simply stand for the bucolic little town that gave its name to a turreted prison, mislabeled a "correctional facility." Attica will evoke the bloodiest prison rebellion in U.S. history. It will take its place alongside Kent State, Jackson State, My Lai and other traumatic events that have shaken the American conscience and incited searing controversy over the application of force?and the pressures that provoke...