It’s common for an attorney to visit a client in prison. It’s far less common for an attorney to walk into a maximum-security lockup after a bloody riot that left armed prisoners in control and dozens of guards and civilian employees held hostage.
But that’s what John Dunne did along with New York Times reporter Tom Wicker and Assemblyman Arthur Eve during the 1971 siege at Attica Correctional Facility. It was one of the most divisive and searing events of the post-1960s decade and Dunne, then a state senator, played a key role in those heady events.
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