nelson, ms. curry, thank you for joining us tonight. powerful stuff. stanley has stuck with me was hearing and reading one of the former attica inmates interviewed in your film, arthur harrison. because in addition to describing the horrors of the prison life he knew at attica, he says that things have gotten better in our prison system, in our penal system. and i wonder most americans who either weren't in the system back then or simply weren't alive, i wonder if they can appreciate how bad conditions must have been for hundreds of black and latino inmates to revolt knowing they'd likely be punished, if not killed, for it. how bad was it at attica leading up to september of 1971? i was only a teenage activist then, 15 or 16 years old but i remember hearing about the uprising. >> yeah. one of the things that we detail in the film was how really terrible attica was. you know, the prisoners call it the last place. the -- the worst prison in new york state. you know, they -- they -- the prisoners were given one roll of toilet paper a month. you know, and that's j