Summaries
and Witnesses:
Part
1: New York City Public Hearings, pages 495-549.
Herman Schwartz is a professor of law at the State University
of New York at Buffalo. He has represented groups of prisoners
at Attica on such issues as medical care, better pay for
prison work, and men who were punished unfairly within
the prison. He visited Attica on September 9th, and he
and Arthur Eve were allowed access by the prisoners into
the prisoner controlled areas to conduct negotiations.
Schwartz gives detailed testimony of his discussions with
prisoners.
Part
2: New York City Public Hearings, pages 550-614.
Schwartz continues his testimony about his negotiations
with the inmates during the uprising throughout the morning
session. Schwartz explains how the inmates were politically
organized and strongly unified. Schwartz discusses how
the prisoners felt betrayed by broken promises made in
the past by the state.
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New York City
Hearings ~ April 19, 1972 (Afternoon)
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Summaries
and Witnesses:
Part
1: New York City Public Hearings, pages 615-685.
Mr. McKay recapitulates what the commission has covered
thus far. Steven Rosenfeld testifies about statistics
gathered about inmates from Attica from the period
of September 9th to the 13th. Rosenfeld discusses
age, education, and ethnicity as influential variables
on the uprising. Charles Ray Carpenter, an inmate
at Attica, testifies to the commission about events
during and surrounding the uprising.
Part
2: New York City Public Hearings, pages 685-760.
Clarence Jones is an editor and publisher of the
New York Amsterdam News, and he is also an attorney.
Jones testifies for the duration of the afternoon
session about his invitation from Governor Rockefeller's
office to go to Attica during the disturbance, upon
request of the inmates. He discusses the requests
made by the inmates, particularly the request of
criminal amnesty for the inmates' actions during
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