40 Years Later: Remembering Attica
Submitted on September 3, 2011
By Bruce A. Dixon - Black Agenda Report
Forty years ago this week, inmates in upstate New York's Attica Prison took their lives and destinies into their own hands. The prison, designed for 1200 inmates at the time housed nearly double that number, and inmates were limited to one shower per week and one roll of toilet paper per month. Arbitrary beatings and religious discrimination against Muslim inmates were common...“We are men...and not beasts to be driven as such.”
