Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy — Who Controls Accountability?
What happens when the institution accused of wrongdoing also controls much of the machinery meant to investigate it?
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In Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, historian Heather Ann Thompson reconstructs the conditions that produced the 1971 Attica uprising, the violent retaking of the prison, and the extraordinary struggle over truth and accountability that followed.
Rather than treating Attica as an isolated prison riot, this investigation follows the larger institutional system…
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