tom walker of the new york times or bill counselor.rv and conservative statexed ba legislators. they all agree that these guys had legitimate claims in the state needed to deal with them and negotiate with them. the negotiations seem to be going well but after the fourthh night the state decides to take the prison with brutal force. they send in 500 state troopers, since in about 200 and corrections officers are armed.t this is it after dropping gas so everyone is already immobilized. the shooting begins and all you can here's gunfire. they kill 39 men, prisoners and. guards alike there's a total of 128 men shot some was six or seven bullet wounds and then they torture them in for days and weeks. it was the hardest part of the book to write. probably most extraordinarilythe they step out and tell the world that something different happened which is that the prisoners killed the hostages. and that story is important to shaping what the nation thinks about prisoner rights. the story which i thought was about a rebellion turned out about the cover-up of the police crimes that go on