September 9, 2011
Attica Prison Riot: Painful memories linger 40 years later
The village of Attica was hardly a spot on the map in 1971, until what all the locals simply call “the riot.”
The community nestled in the hills of rural Wyoming County became a household name across the country because of intense media coverage of the September 1971 uprising at Attica Correctional Facility.
The village was a company town and the company was the prison. Everybody worked there or knew someone who did...
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