The Attica State Prison riot in Attica, New York ends. The riot ended with the highest number of fatalities in the history of United States prison uprisings, after New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller ordered the State Police to regain control of the prison by force.
The riot started four days earlier on September 9, with a violent takeover of the prison control center in which one prison officer, William Quinn, was killed. Of the 43 men who died (33 inmates and 10 correctional officers and employees), all but one guard and three inmates were killed by law enforcement gunfire, when the state retook control of the prison on the final day of the uprising. the facility housed 2,250 inmates at the time but had a maximum capacity of 1,600. More
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