Storming Of The Gates: A Small Town With A Big Prison And A Bloody History

WNYC News | Sep 14, 2021

Local residents in the town of Attica, New York don't mind the stigma of the prison uprising that took place here 50 years ago, but they remain clear-eyed about what really happened. WNYC's Joseph Gedeon traveled upstate to report on the town and its community of individuals who lost friends and family 50 years ago during the Attica Uprising of 1971. 

 

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