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...Attica, N.Y. Opened 1931 Capacity: 2,150 Inmates: 2,145 males
...pleaded guilty and was committed to the Elmira Correctional Facility. So began his tour of New York State prisons. By the time he celebrated his 41st birthday last April 18, he had spread 17 years of his life among institutions in Elmira, Comstock, Dannemora, Auburn, Stormville and now Attica, famous Attica...
...hardly looks troublesome these days, this odd, '30s fortress with the Greek-echo name. In September 1971, Attica put hell on display for the nation. There are no signs of a riot today. The shock to one's system lies simply in the place itself, its main wall rising 30 ft. around 53 acres in the middle of dead-quiet upstate greenery. The wall is gray gray. Nothing in nature, including a rock, could be that color. Guards say the wall goes down 30 ft. in spots so as to hold fast in the quicksand. At intervals along...
...into his own mind. Since what frightens him about his mind was nurtured in prison, the process of self-examination is as circular and enclosed as Sy's upstate odyssey. Such nonprogress may be typical of a great many prisoners, but as one discovers in a place like Attica, no inmate is typical. All the instruments of uniformity in a prison-the architecture, the outfits, the language and routine-merely emphasize the fact that here, as elsewhere, every cell contains a person...