Attica Turkey Shoot (eBook)

Carnage, Cover-Up, and the Pursuit of Justice

Malcolm Bell (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
416 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-1617-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know. In 1971, following a prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, state police and prison guards slaughtered thirty-nine hostages and inmates and tortured more than one thousand men after they had surrendered. State officials pretended that they could not successfully prosecute the law officers who perpetrated this carnage, and then those same officials scurried for shelter when a prosecutor named Malcolm Bell exposed the cover-up.Bell traveled a rocky road to a justice of sorts as he sought to prosecute without fear or favorin spite of a deck that the officials had stacked to keep the police from facing the same justice that had filled the Attica prison in the first place. His insiders account illuminates the all-too-common contrast between the justice of the privileged and the justice of the rest.The book also includes information from the recent release of portions of the long-secret Meyer Report, which was commissioned following Bells initial allegations of a cover-up. The Attica Turkey Shoot highlights the hypocrisy of a criminal justice system that decides who goes to prison and who enjoys impunity in a nation where no one is said to be above the law.

Autor

Malcolm Bell, a former corporate litigator, decided in mid-career to seek greater fulfillment by pursuing criminal law. While serving as a New York State prosecutor, he bravely blew the whistle on the state’s refusal to hold law officers accountable for the extensive torture and murder that they committed during the 1971 Attica prison riot.Heather Ann Thompson, professor of history at the University of Michigan, has written extensively on the history of mass incarceration. She is the author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2017
• Vorwort: Heather Ann Thompson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Schlagworte: 1971 • administrators • american voters • Angela Davis • Auburn • books on class societies • books on correctional officers • books on cover ups • books on friendly fires • books on mary-alices • books on mass incarcerations books on • books on police powers • callousness • Capitalist society • civil damages • class society • continued resistance • Correctional officers • Corrections • cover-up • Coverup • cover ups • criminal justice • deputies • dressler • Enforcement • exhaustive research • Facility • Fink • friendly fire • gaines • gilberts • Governor • guns blazing • Hostages • Human potential • incarcerated • inmates • mary-alice thompsons • Mass Incarceration • meticulously • Michigan • militant • Nelson Rockefeller • obtain justice • Pathfinder • police officials • police power • Prisoners • prison guards • prison officials • prison population • Prison Reform • prison riot • Prisons • Prison system • Prosecution • Redress • reprisals • retake • retaking • Richard Nixon • Rockefellers • September • severely wounded • special prosecutor • stonewalling • Takeover • troopers • uprising • well-researched • Whistle Blower
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-1617-3 / 1510716173
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1617-9 / 9781510716179