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MILESTONES, Page 87
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."