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Blood in the Water

The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

2016

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

Revisiting the Ghosts of Attica

A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.

by Tom Robbins via The Marshall Project on September 19, 2016
Book Review

Learning from the Slaughter in Attica

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker
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on August 22, 2016

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Attica after state police stormed the prison, 1971.

How Should We Remember Attica?

Orisanmi Burton’s "Tip of the Spear" uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons.

by Charlotte E. Rosen via The Nation on May 26, 2025

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