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Prison Punishment Prison Punishment This article really brought to my attention things I had never before imagined that happened in America’s prisons. I liked this article more than any other article we have read this year. I found it very interesting and it held my attention easily. To me, learning in-depth about a discreet and not so well-known topic in history was fascinating. I also feel that this article really dug up some dirt on certain situations makes known the truth about our American prisons in the seventies. I find what I read to be quite appalling. I knew there had been prison riots before, but I had not know how many, the reasons for them, and their magnitudes. Zinn did a good job of relating all the different riots together with common denominators. What first grabbed my attention were the statistics. I could not believe how lopsided they were. In almost all cases, more than half of the prisoners were black. At Attica, 54% of inmates were black, while 100% of the guards were white. This racial separation contributed to some of the uprisings, but society’s problems contributed mostly. prisoners, prison, prisons, article, about, black, really, guards, been, attention, way, truth, sostre, riots, rioted, rebellions, reasons, read, never, liked, later, known, know, happened, fact, easily, contributed, came, before, attica, america’s, zinn, youth, years, year-old