On the rainy Monday morning of September 13, an ultimatum was read to the inmates, calling on them to surrender.
At a. The police fired 3, rounds into the tear gas haze, killing 29 inmates and 10 of the hostages and wounding Most were shot in the initial indiscriminate barrage of gunfire, but other prisoners were shot or killed after they surrendered. An emergency medical technician recalled seeing a wounded prisoner, lying on the ground, shot several times in the head by a state trooper.
Another prisoner was shot seven times and then ordered to crawl along the ground. Many others were savagely beaten. In the aftermath of the bloody raid, authorities said the inmates had killed the slain hostages by slitting their throats. One hostage was said to have been castrated. However, autopsies showed that these charges were false and that all 10 hostages had been shot to death by police. The attempted cover-up increased public condemnation of the raid and prompted a Congressional investigation.
The Attica uprising was the worst prison riot in U. A total of 43 people were killed, including the 39 killed in the raid, guard William Quinn, and three inmates killed by other prisoners early in the riot. In the week after its conclusion, police engaged in brutal reprisals against the prisoners, forcing them to run a gauntlet of nightsticks and crawl naked across broken glass, among other tortures.
The many injured inmates received substandard medical treatment, if any. It took 18 years before the suit came to trial, and five more years to reach the damages phase, delays that were the fault of a lower-court judge opposed to the case. As Orange Is the New Black started heading towards its fourth season finale, most of the show's pop culture-loving DNA started melting away to reveal a darker, more serious core.
But, in the finale spoilers beyond this point! And, once their anger became a full on riot, the characters began chanting — but why were the OITNB prisoners yelling "Attica? The answer is actually twofold. The shouting of "Attica! Thompson reveals that the state took its actions knowing its own employees, then being held hostage, would likely be killed.
She lays out how officials as high up as President Richard Nixon supported many of these actions and how in the years following the riots, the state went to extraordinary lengths to try to obscure facts and protect offenders. The corrections officers were often locals simply looking for steady work. They received no training on how to deal with caged, often violent men and were paid so poorly that many required a second job to make ends meet, yet each was expected to oversee anywhere from prisoners at once.
Soon, prison officials realized that traditional factions among racial and religious lines were breaking down, the men instead forging a new solidarity. On Aug. A violent confrontation on Sept. The tension exploded on Sept.
After a prisoner in lockdown was released when a fellow inmate managed to flip the switch to his cell door, a group of convicts were locked in a passageway, known as A Tunnel, on the way back from breakfast. Believing they were about to suffer a fate similar to the prisoner from the day before, one attacked a guard, and several others immediately joined in. Some inmates hid in fear, while others saw a chance for revenge against guards or prisoners who had done them wrong.
Many in other sections of the prison could see the melee, and others still could hear it. Word spread quickly, and throughout the prison, men were grabbing any potential weapon they could find and stripping guards of their keys. Many prisoners went out of their way to protect guards who had treated them well. On Sept. Inmates overwhelmed guards and took control of the prison, taking numerous staff members hostage and making them dress in prisoner garb.
Some organized elections so leaders and spokesmen could be chosen to voice their demands. Others built tents and dug latrines, which we see in archival footage likely taken by members of the press — members of the press who were purposely invited in to give the inmates a worldwide audience. State police and the National Guard gathered on the other side of the wall, donning gas masks and loading shotguns.
Inmates lobbied potential allies from the outside to help them negotiate; they wanted basic human-rights necessities to be met, and a promise of amnesty for anyone involved in taking over the prison. He ignored pleas to visit the prison and soothe growing tensions. Negotiations broke down. Ugly rumors about the state of the hostages swirled. The inmates held the prison for four days before Rockefeller ordered the police to retake the grounds.
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