Both Sides of the Bar – October 2020 – Remembering Attica 49 Years Later

October 15, 2020

Andre Ward

Public Affairs

When tempers reached a boiling point on September 9, 1971, the prisoners filling the cells of New York State’s Attica prison erupted in a full-fledged rebellion, taking over the prison and holding it for four days, along with several guards who had been taken hostage. By the time state troopers and police forces retook Attica […]