On this day, 9 September 1971, the Attica prison uprising took place. Prisoners in appalling conditions united across racial lines and took control of the prison, demanding better treatment. The governor responded by sending in state troopers who stormed the prison and murdered 39 people, including eight guards whom they then claimed were killed by prisoners. But despite the repression, a wave of rebellion swept America’s prisons. This is a short history of the uprising: https://libcom.org/history/1971-the-attica-prison-uprising https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1206871586164656/?type=3
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