The uprising at Attica State Correctional Facility happened 45 years ago, but the case was still in the news in 2015. The decades of investigations and litigation that followed the four-day revolt produced to a sorry story of brutality, lying and fraud by government officials from correction officers and State Troopers right up through Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. It is a tale that the state has fought to suppress.
It is this story that University of Michigan historian Heather Ann Thompson tells in “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy” (Pantheon Books). She spent 10 years researching it, and it shows. The publisher billed it as “the first definitive history” of the rebellion and its aftermath.
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