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* Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State (Kindle Single) ☆ PDF Read by # Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State (Kindle Single) "So That is What Happened at Attica" according to Gregory Paul Adkins. I was born in 1958. Perhaps I should have paid more attention to Attica when it happened, but before I read this book, it was half-remembered. I recall the state police in orange raincoats for identification about to storm the yard.I did not know so many hostages. A Mixed Bag There were some really high points to this Kindle Single, but there were also some big shortcomings as well. Jones played a first hand role in the event
| Title | : | Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State (Kindle Single) |
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005L393WW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 426 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
"So That is What Happened at Attica" according to Gregory Paul Adkins. I was born in 1958. Perhaps I should have paid more attention to Attica when it happened, but before I read this book, it was half-remembered. I recall the state police in orange raincoats for identification about to storm the yard.I did not know so many hostages. A Mixed Bag There were some really high points to this Kindle Single, but there were also some big shortcomings as well. Jones played a first hand role in the events at Attica, asked by the leaders of the revolt to "mediate" and personally called New York Governor Nelson Roc. Great! An excellent telling by a total insider of this incredibly compelling and complex historical event. I love the Kindle Single (Kingle? Is that a word?)
As lawyer, advisor, draft speechwriter, and close personal friend of Dr. A discussion of the deplorable worsening of the American penal system since Attica, it explores the capitalistic motivations that have driven the evolution of our increasingly privatized and profit-driven "corrections" industry, the racially motivated disparity of our laws, and the nearly complete elimination of rehabilitation as a goal in our "incarceration state," which--to quote Michele Alexander, as does Jones--"imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid." As Jones argues with passion and clarity, "readers are instinctively gravitating
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s former attorney and draft speechwriter, now tells the personal story of his time battling and negotiating for the inmates’ survival as one of the observers and requested by the inmates during the rebellion.But "Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State" goes beyond memoir -- Jones and Connelly use Attica as a touchstone for a clear-eyed critique of what has gone wrong with America’s prison system over the last forty years.. In September 1971, the bloodiest prison riot in American history took place in sleepy upstate New York town of Attica. Yet most of that blood was spilled not by the inmates who took over Attica Correctional Facility during four desperate days, but by the state's governor and future vice president Nelson Rockefeller.This is the personal story of what those days were like, what went wrong, and how the tragedy at Attica holds up a mirror to America's dark treatment of its prison population.Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly, the authors of the acclaimed memoi
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