Part one of term paper
STATE PRISON UPRISING SEPTEMBER 13, 1971 George Jackson the most famous political prisoner in the 70’s and leader of the Black Panther Party was incarcerated at San Quentin Prison in California. He was killed by the State on August 21, 1971. Because of this inmates organized a hunger strike and wore black arm bands. George Jackson ...

Part two of term paper
... was approximately two weeks after George Jackson’s death. The uprising of New York’s State Correctional Facility is known as the most notorious prison riot in American History. During this time New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller ran the State prison as forced labor camps as well as other state prisons. State Prison during this time also had an all white correctional staff and eighty-five percent of ’s prisoners were Black and Latino. Working conditions in State Pri ...