Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More Assaults. Until the maxi-maxi is built, the guards at Attica are insisting on tightening up prison discipline. They blame the revolt on a too permissive atmosphere. "We never considered our job dangerous," says Attica Mayor Richard Miller, who also serves as a prison guard. "There have been more assaults on officers in the last year and a half than in all my years before. It just didn't used to happen...
...meantime, the guards are apparently taking discipline into their own hands. While 50 prisoners implicated in the revolt are currently housed in a maximum security area that is clean and not too crowded, reports suggest that they are being made to pay for their behavior. Relatives visiting the prison have emerged weeping and complaining that inmates are beaten and threatened as a matter of routine. Last week three inmates testified in a federal court hearing in Buffalo that they had been repeatedly mistreated by guards since the rebellion. District Judge John T. Curtin refused to allow their request...
...Convicts involved in the Attica revolt should be uncompromisingly punished. An investigation should be made of the Black Panthers and William Kunstler regarding the extent to which they abetted the whole ugly affair...
Anyone interested should call 261-2470 or write to "TAX REFERENDUM", 330 Dartmouth St., Boston, 02116, to learn who in their area has petitions available. Anyone wishing to help defray the cost of this "TAXPAYERS' REVOLT" effort should send their check to this same address. Sylvia Sanders Director, Tax Referendum
...from Attica to the Tombs, Manhattan's Men's House of Detention, to await a hearing on one of his appeals. In October, the Tombs exploded into a riot; Blyden was indicted as one of the leaders of the rebellion and was returned to Attica after the revolt collapsed...