prisoners rights

"Although the decrease in the population was extremely positive on the macro-level, it did little to change the conditions of the confinement in the jails—the use of force rate remains unacceptably high," a new report says.

"They were throwing inmates off the bleachers," one plaintiff said.

"He needlessly suffered for hours as his insides literally burned," a judge said.

The bloody Attica prison uprising is 40 years old today.