On the morning of Sept. 9, 1971 — 50 years ago this Thursday — Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York was a tinderbox ready to explode. Inmates were angry about lousy conditions and overcrowding. A manifesto demanding improvements was largely ignored. Animosity over a shoving match between a prisoner and a guard, which had…
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