fuckyeahanarchistposters:

“We are Men! We are not beasts and do not intend to be beaten or
driven as such. The entire prison populace has set forth to change
forever the ruthless brutalization and disregard for the lives of the
prisoners here and throughout the United States. What has happened here
is but the sound before the fury of those are oppressed.”

Elliot L.D. Barkley, revolutionary inmate, speaking to media during the 1971
Attica Prison Uprising.

On September 9, 1971, two weeks after the killing of revolutionary prisoner George Jackson at San Quentin,
about 1,000 of the Attica prison’s approximately 2,200 inmates rioted
and seized control of the prison, taking 42 staff hostage.

During the following four days of negotiations, authorities agreed to
28 of the prisoners’ demands, but would not agree to demands for
complete amnesty
from criminal prosecution for the prison takeover or for the removal of
Attica’s superintendent. By the order of state Governor Nelson
Rockefeller, state police took back control of the prison. When the
uprising was over, at least 43 people were dead, including ten screws and 33 inmates.