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    This document announces a talk by Heather Ann Thompson from Temple University titled "From the Possibilities of Prisoner Rebellion to the Problem of Punitive Justice Policy". The talk will discuss the 1971 Attica prison uprising where over 1,200 prisoners took over the maximum security prison in upstate New York to negotiate for better living conditions and civil rights. After 4 days of negotiations, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered state troopers to forcibly retake the prison, resulting in a massacre of prisoners and hostages. Thompson will shine new light on this civil rights rebellion and discuss how it helped pave the way for the United States' embrace of more punitive justice policies in the late 20th century.

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    This document announces a talk by Heather Ann Thompson from Temple University titled "From the Possibilities of Prisoner Rebellion to the Problem of Punitive Justice Policy". The talk will discuss the 1971 Attica prison uprising where over 1,200 prisoners took over the maximum security prison in upstate New York to negotiate for better living conditions and civil rights. After 4 days of negotiations, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered state troopers to forcibly retake the prison, resulting in a massacre of prisoners and hostages. Thompson will shine new light on this civil rights rebellion and discuss how it helped pave the way for the United States' embrace of more punitive justice policies in the late 20th century.

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    This document announces a talk by Heather Ann Thompson from Temple University titled "From the Possibilities of Prisoner Rebellion to the Problem of Punitive Justice Policy". The talk will discuss the 1971 Attica prison uprising where over 1,200 prisoners took over the maximum security prison in upstate New York to negotiate for better living conditions and civil rights. After 4 days of negotiations, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered state troopers to forcibly retake the prison, resulting in a massacre of prisoners and hostages. Thompson will shine new light on this civil rights rebellion and discuss how it helped pave the way for the United States' embrace of more punitive justice policies in the late 20th century.

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    Capitalism

    in Crisis: Development, Sustainability, & Inequality in Global Perspective


    (20142015)

    Attica, Attica, Attica!

    From the Possibilities of Prisoner Rebellion to the


    Problem of Punitive Justice Policy

    Heather Ann Thompson


    Temple University

    Tuesday March 3rd, 2:30-4:00pm


    History Department Library
    Sakamaki Hall A201








    On September 9, 1971 over 1200 prisoners took over a maximum security prison in
    upstate New York. Over the course of their four day rebellion the world watched as
    prisoners negotiated with top state officials for better living conditions and basic civil
    rights. Suddenly, though, on September 13, 1971 Governor Nelson Rockefeller
    ordered the forcible retaking of this prison by hundreds of heavily armed state
    troopers. The result was a massacre of prisoners and hostages alike. In this talk,
    Heather Ann Thompson will not only shine new light of this civil rights rebellion, but
    she will also place it in its broader historical context. Attica, Thompson suggests, had
    everything to do with the U.S.s subsequent embrace of far more punitive justice
    policy as the 20th century became the 21st.

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