Attica Quaker Worship Group:  With, Not For

by Karen Reixach 
Ithica Meeting

At a distance of 40 years, with all my papers on Attica sent to Friends Historical Society, and with most of the outsiders involved in Attica in the late 1970s and early 80s having died, this account may have things out of order and things omitted. But here are some of my memories.

Quaker Prisms

by Michael Rhynes 
Attica Worship Group

Quaker worship in Attica is on Friday nights. The week-long trek to return to our safe haven of worship is a strange and perilous journey through the abyss of correctional madness.

As insiders, we travel long distances within restricted spaces. We bring with us family problems, prison-related stress, relationship issues, the dust of institutional hatred, and particles of hope.