ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Elizabeth Fink, a New York lawyer who helped state inmates win a $12 million settlement three decades after the bloody 1971 prison riot in Attica, has died. She was 70.
Fink died of cardiac arrest Tuesday at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, said her brother, Larry Fink.
Elizabeth Fink sued state authorities over the force used to retake control of Attica Correctional Facility from inmates. Troopers and guards fatally shot 29 inmates and 10 hostages, and prisoners who had rioted five days earlier and taken control of part of the prison were beaten and tortured.
“It took 27 years,” she told The Associated Press last year. “It was not a lot of money.”
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