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The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States
in 1971. The riot was based in part upon prisoners' demands for better
living conditions. On September 9, 1971, responding to the death of
prisoner George Jackson, a black radical activist prisoner who had been shot to death by corrections officers in California's San Quentin Prison
on August 21, about 1,000 of the prison's approximately 2,200 prisoners
rioted and seized control of the prison, taking 33 staff hostage. The
State began negotiating with the prisoners.
During the following four days of negotiations, authorities agreed to
28 of the prisoners' demands, but would not agree to demands for
complete amnesty from criminal prosecution for the prison takeover or for the removal of Attica's superintendent. On the order of Governor Nelson Rockefeller,
state police took back control of the prison. When the uprising was
over, at least 39 people were dead, including ten correctional officers
and civilian employees.
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