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    Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison campus in the Town of Attica, New York, operated by the New York State Department of Corrections...
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    1971, 1,281 of the approximately 2,200 men incarcerated in the Attica Correctional Facility rioted and took control of the prison, taking 42 staff hostage...
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    maximum security Attica Correctional Facility and medium-security Wyoming Correctional Facility are located here. The Town of Attica was established in...
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  • Wyoming Correctional Facility is a medium-security state men's prison in Town of Attica, Wyoming County, New York. The prison is located adjacent to the...
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  • Sullivan Correctional Facility. Mark David Chapman - the man who murdered John Lennon in 1980. Chapman was transferred from Attica Correctional Facility to...
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    Inmates of Attica Correctional Facility v Rockefeller, 477 F.2d 375 (1973) was a United States 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals case that affirmed the right...
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  • Zerbe. It depicts the events leading up to and during the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility riot and the aftermath. Henry Darrow as Herman Badillo Charles...
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    Department of Correctional Services has quietly struck from the books a 40-year-old rule that designated the upstate Green Haven Correctional Facility the state's...
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    twenty-five years to life. In 1981, Chapman was imprisoned at Attica Correctional Facility outside of Buffalo, New York. He fasted for twenty-six days in...
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  • transferred to Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County. Berkowitz described his life in Attica Correctional Facility as a "nightmare". In 1979...
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