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- AWARDED. To seven former inmates of the Attica, N.Y.,
- Correctional Facility, or their families; $1.3 million in
- damages for injuries sustained in the violent suppression of a
- prison riot in 1971; by the New York State Court of Claims in
- Albany. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who ordered the police
- assault on the prison that resulted in the deaths of 29 inmates
- and ten prison guards and civilian workers, called the killings
- "justifiable homicide."
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