Biography
Anthony "Tony" Williams was an Attica prisoner prosecuted after the September 1971 uprising. Attica News documented two months in Erie County Jail on the resulting indictment before its dismissal was announced in February 1973. A later notice by fellow prisoner Akil identified Williams by his full name and reported that he had died at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York. The notice said the writers learned of his death on June 19, 1975; his actual death date remains unverified.
The March 1973 Attica News physical page 5 dates the dropping of Tony Williams kidnapping, unlawful-imprisonment and coercion charges to February 26, citing prosecutor Brian Malone and possible mistaken identification. It reports two months in Erie County Jail and his planned false-arrest action. A later June 1975 account instead places the prosecution acknowledgement in the last week of January 1973; the reports may describe different procedural stages. Neither is proof of physical release from underlying imprisonment. Physical page 9 also names him among prisoners allegedly beaten in early 1972. Source: https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC510_scans/Attica/510.Prisons.AtticaNewsVol1No1.pdf#page=5
Attica News said Tony Williams had been held in Attica’s HBZ punitive segregation since September 13, 1971. He was indicted in December 1972; the prosecution acknowledged in the last week of January 1973 that he was not the man it sought. The report said supporters learned of his death at Great Meadow on June 19, 1975, without giving the actual death date. Neither the acknowledgement nor the reporting date establishes release or a death date.
