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1971: America's Deadliest Prison Riot
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1971: America's Deadliest Prison Riot
Conditions at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, were so bad that when a fight between two inmates was broken up in 1971, it started a chain reaction that led to a riot. Critical errors in the guards' containment strategy enabled angry inmates to take control of most of the prison and hold prison guards as hostages. This led to a standoff, and the prisoners took the opportunity to organize, not only to negotiate with authoriti…
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