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New York Employees Families Settle Attica Riot Claims for $12 Million
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2005, page 33
The State of New York has reached a $12 million settlement with the Forgotten Victims of Attica, a group of surviving state employees and relatives of 11 guards killed during the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility.
Filed under:
Prison Rebellion,
Failure to Protect (General),
Settlements,
State Law Claims,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Guards/Staff,
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
New York.
Under a proposal by Governor George E. Pataki, the Forgotten Victims of …
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