Benjamin, Gerald and Rappaport, Stephen P.

ATTICA AND PRISON REFORM.

Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science 1974 31(3): 200-213. This article explores the impact that the Attica prison uprising of 1971 had on prison reform in New York State.

A RECENT INMATE RECALLS: BOOKS AND PEOPLE BEHIND BARS AT ATTICA. Wilson Library Bulletin 1972 46(7): 614-619.

A former inmate of Attica explores the rehabilitative role of prison libraries.

Review of Tom Wicker's A Time to Die. Journalism Quarterly 52 (Wint 75) 781.

TWENTY YEARS LATER - ATTICA CIVIL RIGHTS CASE FINALLY CLEARED FOR TRIAL. Social Justice 1991 18(3): 13-25.

Deutsch, Cunningham, and Fink offer an account of the Attica State Prison uprising of September 9-13, 1971, including the actions of authorities in quelling the revolt, the reprisals against inmates afterwards, and the course of the class-action civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of 1200 Attica prisoners (and cleared for trial in 1991).

THE ATTICA MUSE: LESSONS FROM PRISON. History Teacher 1992 26(1): 61-70.

In the years following the Attica uprising, many prison reform measures were implemented. In 1975, the Consortium of the Niagara Frontier, an association of several western New York colleges, began a college program offering Bachelor of Arts degrees at three New York correctional facilities. This article discusses the extent of success of the prison college program.

"The Rhetorical Reaction to Attica: Social Rhetoric and the Symbolic Event." DAI 1974 34(11): 7367-A.
U. of Minnesota 1973 Dissertation. 248 pp.

Review of Tom Wicker's A Time to Die. Political Science Quarterly 91 (Spr. 1976) 168-169.

“Attica: A Monstrous Credibility Gap." University of New Hampshire Ph.D. Dissertation, 2006.

ATTICA: A MICROCOSM OF THE GHETTO. Crisis 1972 79(7): 226-228.

Suggests that the social problems and racism that characterize American society permeate prisons and yield violence, as witnessed by events in 1971 at Attica State Prison in New York.

POPULAR CULTURAL IMAGES OF CRIMINALS AND PRISONERS SINCE ATTICA. Social Justice 1991 18(3): 48-70.

Examines the historical image of the criminal as violent, frightening "other," and how such an image shaped public perception of the Attica State Prison uprising in New York in 1971 and influenced perceptions of crime, personal safety, and prison reform in the two decades following 1971

TOM WICKER'S ATTICA. Commentary 1975 59(5): 49-56.

Reviews Tom Wicker's A Time to Die (New York: Quadrangle 1975) in the context of Wicker's perspective as a Southerner at the Attica prison riots.

ATTICA NOW. Monthly Review 1976 27(8): 12-20.

An account of grand jury proceedings and criminal cases growing out of the prison insurrection at Attica State Prison in 1971. Rubinstein points out weaknesses in the McKay Commission's investigation and strongly criticizes state practices employed to prosecute inmates. The author calls for concerned individuals to support the resolution for total amnesty currently before the New York legislature.

GUEST EDITOR'S INTERVIEW. Social Justice 1991 18(3): 84-91.

Frank (Big Black) Smith and Akil Al-Jundi, former inmates at Attica State Prison in New York and leaders of the September 1971 uprising, discuss the revolt, its impact, and the state of American prisons and prisoners--including those at Attica.

PRISONS, POLITICS, AND THE ATTICA REPORT. Commentary 1973 55(3): 31-37.

Discusses the findings of the Attica Special Citizens' Commission and its recommendations for prison reform.

"THE ORDER OF ATTICA." Social Justice 1991 18(3): 35-47.

Weiss suggests that "social reification" - a process by which human beings "objectify each other and transform human properties, actions, and relations into seemingly independent forces" - created an "order of things" at New York's Attica State Prison that led to the violent end of the Attica uprising.

A Time to Die. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times, 1975. 342 pp.

ATTICA PRISONERS SEEK AID FROM NAACP (1932). Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 1977 1(2): 211-212.

Reprints a letter by black inmates of New York's Attica State Prison in 1932 asking the NAACP to investigate prison conditions of blacks.

EPISODES FROM THE ATTICA MASSACRE. Black Scholar 1972 4(2): 35-39.

Series of short essays relating the takeover of Attica Prison, Attica, New York, by black inmates, 1971.