State prison inmates will now have access to a book detailing the Attica prison uprising, but one part will still be kept censored.
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York authorities have lifted a ban that had stopped state prison inmates from reading a book about the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit brought by its author.
In total, 32 inmates and 11 staff were killed, with no law enforcement officers put on trial for their role in the massacre. She was represented in the lawsuit by the Civil Rights Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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