ALBANY, N.Y., May 22 (UPI) -- Some 40 years after the Attica prison riot, considered the nation's bloodiest, newly unsealed court documents show inmates were denied medical treatment, tortured and beaten, lending credence to the longstanding accounts of abuse at the maximum-security facility.
The documents, volumes two and three of the Meyer Report on the 1971 uprising, show 62 inmates were charged with 1,289 felonies, ranging from kidnapping to murder, and one law enforcement officer was charged with criminal wrongdoing. In the aftermath of the riot, prison guards were seen beating inmates with clubs and ripping bandages off the injured. Guards had set up a gauntlet, put broken glass on the floor and forced inmates to run through.