Blood in the Water (Translated Documentary)
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A true gift to the written history of the struggle for civil rights and racial justice in the United States - 45 years of pursuit of justice, a glorious page in the history of the struggle for civil rights in the United States. The first and most authoritative history of the 1971 prison riot, the largest and most influential in American history, is an opportunity to comprehensively examine the American prison system. In 2017, it won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Bancroft Prize, was shortlisted for the National Book Award, and entered 14 "Best Books of 2016" lists. Attica Prison is New York State's most notorious and maximum-security prison. It opened in the 1930s and had never been modernized until a prisoner uprising broke out in 1971. On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 inmates took over Attica Prison to protest years of abuse. On September 13, the state suddenly sent hundreds of heavily armed soldiers and prison guards, and they did not hesitate to use weapons banned by the state to forcibly seize the prison. They shot and killed 39 men, including hostages and prisoners, and seriously injured more than 100 people. In the hours, weeks and months that followed, state troopers and prison officials exacted brutal revenge on the prisoners. In the end, New York State authorities only prosecuted the prisoners and never charged the officials involved in the custody and aftermath. There was no apology or compensation to the survivors and the families of the victims. It wasn't until 2012 that a 45-year battle for justice by victims, lawyers, judges, and state officials and law enforcement officers came to fruition.
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