Attica Correctional Facility

We are gonna do Attica, man.

A revolt in New York's Attica Correctional Facility.

Attica, Attica, Attica.

Ended after a bloody state police assault on the prison in which 29 inmates and 10 hostages were killed.

Giving Muslim El Sayyid Nosair the maximum sentence for a string of lesser charges.

The judge sentenced Nosair to up to 22 years, which he began serving in Attica Prison in Upstate New York.

By this time, Salem and Eljibraili were tight.

Salem also had the confidence of the men who joined Nosair at the Long Island shooting range, and all of them agreed, Salem should now visit Brother Sayyid in prison.

Salem was no longer in the cell, but it took a while for some of the members to realize that, so he kept hearing chatter.

They continued for a month after I walked out

outCalling me every day, "Hey, brother, you gotta come to finish what you started." Uh, Sayyid Nosair called me from Attica Prison, "Brother, don't be afraid.

Uh, I have a lot of money to hire attorneys for you if something goes wrong.

In 1971, Attica, Attica.

Prisoners seized control of the Attica Correctional Facility in Buffalo with a four-day siege.

That's what he's referencing in Dog Day Afternoon.

It's been only 12 years, but the Apple Watch was first announced on this date.

It also established a civil rights division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

In 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, taking 42 staff members hostage and demanding improvements to inmate treatment and living conditions.

In 1985, President Ronald Reagan ordered economic sanctions against South Africa to target apartheid.

In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat exchanged letters in which the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist and renounced violence and Israel recognized the PLO as representing the Palestinian people.

And I was looking for a history of U.S. prisons and.

There are a lot of really good sort of academic books, especially on the early history of U.S. prisons and a lot of really good books on sort of the 70s and 80s with Attica and mass incarceration.

But I couldn't really find this sort of just broad overview of the of the history and different cycles of American prisons, which is was kind of funny to me because.

Prisons are this considered an American invention.

I don't know.

I came out of it at least.

We won't linger on it, but your description of Attica, the Attica prison riots in the early 70s in western New York are really fascinating.

And one of the things that's interesting about that is you talk about how that instituted a series of reforms that actually did improve the quality of life of convicts.