State officials, however, said they will continue to censor one small part of the Pulitzer-prize winning book for security reasons. — The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York authorities have lifted a ban that had stopped state prison inmates from reading a book about the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit brought by its author.
Author Heather Ann Thompson, a historian and professor at the University of Michigan, sued the state’s prisons in March over the ban on her book “Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971.” In total, 32 inmates and 11 staff were killed, with no law enforcement officers put on trial for their role in the massacre.
She was represented in the lawsuit by the Civil Rights Clinic at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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