The New York Times Lens blog highlights prison photography this morning with a beautiful slideshow. More at Pete Brook’s site here.

Forty years later…

The New York Times recently released audio recordings of conversations between then-New York Governor Rockefeller and President Nixon following the violent takeover of Attica on September 13, 1971.

Take a listen here, where you can hear Rockefeller telling Nixon,

“They did a fabulous job… It really was a beautiful operation.”

29 inmates and 10 hostages were killed.