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In the past few years, more than a thousand cameras have been installed throughout Attica Correctional Facility.

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A photo collage of an illustrated black dog against a green backdrop is at the top left, an illustration of a yellow silhouette of a person walking on barbed wire with the word "violation" below the figure is at the top center, a photo of a magazine cover with a prison facility on the cover is on the top right. Beneath the top row, a photo of a mom and her three children playing in their living room appears on the left, and six different people's faces are in a collage on the right. A collage with the words "Inside Story" is on the bottom right, and a collage of cut out words such as "Criminal" "Con" "Felon" "Convict" "Offender" is on the bottom left.
During the 1971 uprising at Attica State Prison, prisoners wearing cloaks and football helmets, some of them with makeshift weapons, waited to negotiate their demands with state officials.
Looking Back September 14, 2021
Revisiting the Attica Riot in Real-Time 50 Years Later
The infamous 1971 prison revolt ended with a bloody police siege. We retell the story, minute-by-minute.
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Life Inside August 12, 2021
Stopping Violence Over Prison Phone Time? There’s an App for That.
While Corey Devon Arthur was quarantining, people in the unit got tablets equipped with telephone apps. “If we all had the option to use a phone app, the value of violence would plunge,” he writes.
By Corey Devon Arthur
News and Awards November 15, 2019
Happy Birthday to The Marshall Project
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In the past few years, more than a thousand cameras have been installed throughout Attica Correctional Facility.
Feature April 9, 2018
Spying on Attica
How nearly 2,000 cameras tamed America’s most notorious prison
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Commentary September 9, 2016
Revisiting the Ghosts of Attica
A wrenching new book recounts the bloodiest prison battle in our history.
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Inmates of the Attica Correctional Facility negotiating with Russell G. Oswald, lower left, the state prisons commissioner, in September 1971.
News August 25, 2016
Revisiting Attica Shows How New York State Failed to Fulfill Promises
A new book brings attention to the deadly 1971 prison uprising. Reporters for The New York Times and The Marshall Project describe what has changed since then, and what hasn’t.
By Michael Winerip, and Michael Schwirtz
On the way to solitary confinement in the Otis Bantum Correctional Center.
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News April 11, 2016
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Southport Correctional Facility, in the Southern Tier of New York State, was cited in more lawsuits since 2010 than any state prison except for Attica Correctional Facility.
News December 20, 2015
Spotting the ‘Red Flags’ of Abusive Prison Guards
Under pressure, New York says it will better track correctional officers
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