PRISONS: Attica Aftermath

PRISONS Attica Aftermath In the wake of the tragic Attica uprising, New York state officials were trying to ensure that it can never happen again. They talk faintly of prison reform, much more passionately of better security. Shaken more than ever before in its history, the state prison system is determined to do better what it has always done before.

Bowing to the urgent demands of the prison guards' union. Corrections Commissioner Russell G. Oswald announced last week that he was seeking to create a super maximum security prison for the most rebellious and incorrigible inmates....

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