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A MUST SEE!!!! The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States in 1971. The riot was based in part upon prisoners' demands for better living conditions. At the time, inmates were given one shower per week and one roll of toilet paper a month.[1] On September 9, 1971, responding to the death of prisoner George Jackson, a black radical prisoner who had been shot to death by guards in California's San Quentin Prison on August 21 while armed ...