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- <text id=89TT2929>
- <title>
- Nov. 06, 1989: Awarded:Former Attica Inmates
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 06, 1989 The Big Break
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 87
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- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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