Historians note that the worst prison riot occurred 52 years ago in Attica, New York, when 1200 inmates gained control of the Attica Correctional Facility and took 42 staff members hostage. The end result was 43 people dead, 10 of them being correctional officers. However, on April 14, 1971 just 5 months prior to the Attica, New York riot, Kingston, Ontario saw its own prison riot at Kingston Penitentiary. While the Kingston Pen riot saw less death than in Attica, it also very much embodied chaos, death and was a violent tragedy in its own right.

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‘Tuck that shirt in!’ — the last order before the Kingston Penitentiary riot began | The Star

'A TERRIBLE MESS': Recalling deadly Kingston Pen riot, 50 years later | Toronto Sun

Looking back on the shocking Kingston Pen riot of 1971 | TVO Today

Visiting Kingston Penitentiary 50 years after the riot | The Kingston Whig Standard (thewhig.com)

Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary by Catherine Fogarty