Prisoners who were beaten and tortured by law enforcement officers at Attica in upstate New York in 1971 were awarded $8 million in a compensation settlement yesterday. The four-day siege at the prison, which cost the lives of 11 guards and 32 prisoners, ended with state troopers storming the facility. Eighty people were wounded. It became the deadliest prison brutality incident in the nation’s history. And this is what it sounded like at the time.

Report on Pacifica Station WBAI in 1971: “Governor Rockefeller and prison officials provoked a police riot, which caused the deaths of 41 persons and the shootings and beatings of hundreds more. We hereby call for the indictment of Governor Rockefeller, Commissioner Oswald, Deputy Commissioner Dunbar, Warden — and Warden Mancusi and Deputy Warden Vincent for assault, mayhem and murder.”