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...Lawyers for Attica prison inmates have been allowed to see their clients since the recent uprising, but the attorneys have not always been summoned when state authorities interrogate the prisoners. Charging a violation of the right to counsel and that many of the prisoners were being beaten or threatened, the attorneys asked the court to enjoin questioning of the convicts temporarily while lower courts consider their claims. The court refused to hear the case. Justice William O. Douglas dissented, arguing that the claims should be considered because prisoners are entitled to the protection of the Constitution and because "this...
...answer to these questions lies in a complex sequence of action and reaction. Jackson played a major role in this sequence, but the chain began long before he was born and, as is evidenced by Attica and the tide of prison disturbances that have followed, the chain was not broken by Jackson's death on an August afternoon in San Quentin...
...Attica is a prison town, which (with the exception of some cities and large communities like Trenton that are the sites of state or federal penal institutions) is a place analogous to the company town. The majority of people in the community are directly connected in some form to the operation of the prison. Fathers, sons, and grandsons work as prison guards. Wives and daughters hold jobs as secretaries or other noncombative positions on the staff. Often in facilities large enough to provide employees housing inside the walls or in cases in which the town is too small to have...
...precisely this question of motivation that is the central one in both cases. It is the pivotal issue, not only because it is the key to the specific truth of what happened at San Quentin and Attica, but also because it is the portal to reaching an understanding of what significance the two incidents hold for those of us surviving, both inside and outside prison walls. It is only through an analysis of the human element of motivation that one can accurately answer the most enduring questions raised by the tragedies at San Quentin and Attica...
...come to terms with the motivation of the men involved in the two incidents one must begin by looking outside of the prisons, for neither George Jackson nor any of the inmates at Attica was born in prison, nor, in probability, were many if any of the guards held hostage...