Barriers Broken: How the Attica Prison Uprising Reformed Human Rights
"Dehumanizing is what the word would be for the conditions in Attica... you're not a human being anymore, you're a third class citizen. That's what brought the rebellion on."
- Frank "Big Black" Smith
September 1971, prisoners in D-Yard with raised fists, CBS News."The prisons in the United States had long been an extreme reflection of the American system itself: the stark life differences between rich and poor, the racism, the lack of resources of the underclass to speak out."
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