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<text id=89TT2929>
<title>
Nov. 06, 1989: Awarded:Former Attica Inmates
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 06, 1989 The Big Break
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
MILESTONES, Page 87
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<p> AWARDED. To seven former inmates of the Attica, N.Y.,
Correctional Facility, or their families; $1.3 million in
damages for injuries sustained in the violent suppression of a
prison riot in 1971; by the New York State Court of Claims in
Albany. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who ordered the police
assault on the prison that resulted in the deaths of 29 inmates
and ten prison guards and civilian workers, called the killings
"justifiable homicide."
</p>
</body></article>
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