Attica- History Made and Lessons Lost

By Michael Deutsch, Esq., Dennis Cunningham, Esq., and Elizabeth Fink, Esq., with Joseph Heath, Esq., and Dan Meyers, Esq.

July 2001

Twenty-nine years after New York’s watershed riot at New York’s Attica prison and its brutal aftermath, New York State has agreed to a settlement for the damage done to the inmates. The attorneys who devoted 25 years to litigation express their conclusions about the settlement, the significance of the case, the riot and where things stand today – in the era of isolation units, private prisons, prison labor and more prisons holding more prisoners serving longer sentences.