AMERICAN PRISONS IN TURMOIL, PART 1

• NCJ Number: 2988
• Author(s): ANON
• Date Published: 1972
• Length: 486 pages
• Corporate Author: US Congress
• Sale Source: Superintendent of Documents, GPO
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: HEARINGS, 92D CONG, 1ST SESS, NOV 29, 30, DEC 1, 2, 3 1971

Annotation

A VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT OF THE CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON THE 1971 ATTICA, NEW YORK PRISON RIOT.

Abstract

THE MAJORITY OF THE WITNESSES APPEARING BEFORE THE U.S. HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON CRIME WERE FROM THE NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES. THE SUPERINTENDENT AND TWO OF THE OFFICERS WHO WERE HELD AS HOSTAGES TESTIFIED, AS DID SEVERAL FORMER INMATES.