Prisoners are planning to go on strike starting today through 9/9, the anniversary of the Attica uprising. I’m reading Blood in the Water right now (https://amzn.to/2OU1mdp ) about the 1971 incident and can’t recommend it enough.
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This book has been incredibly hard to read — what happened there — the actions by the COs, the troopers, and the state coverup, are so much more horrible than I realized.
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I grew up really close to Attica and knew people whose family members were COs. Racism was… definitely still a thing.
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