Flawed Justice
The Crime Report
JULY 1, 2022
The American criminal justice system is flawed, perhaps incurably so. That is the lasting legacy of the September 1971 Attica Prison Riot and the February 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot—the two most violent inmate riots in American penal history. The inmate grievances that triggered these prison riots still exist today in every maximum security state and federal penal facility.
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