Decades Later, State Seeks Release of Report on Attica Uprising
Source: NY Times
More than 40 years after an uprising at Attica left 43 people dead, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is planning to ask a judge to make public a trove of investigatory findings that have been hidden from public view for decades.
A group called the Forgotten Victims of Attica, made up of prison employees who survived the inmate rebellion and the recapture of the prison, as well as relatives of those who did not survive, has urged the state for more than a decade to seek the release of the records.
Mr. Schneiderman, whose office holds the records but has been barred by a decades-old court order from releasing them, said on Friday that he would seek a judge’s permission to release the entirety of what is known as the Meyer report, a 570-page review of the state’s retaking of the prison in 1971.
“The time has come to bring transparency to one of New York State government’s darkest chapters,” Mr. Schneiderman said.
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