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The Big House

History channel goes inside some of the toughest prisons in America

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Paul Sorvino
Narrator
Jim Perry
Self - Retired Warden
George Kelly
Self ("Machine Gun" Kelly)

Season 2 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Attica

Mon, Jan 10, 2000

Attica Correctional Facility - opened in 1931, is a maximum security campus New York State prison in the town of Attica, New York. The prison was hailed as a model for the confinement of the most dangerous criminals.

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