A documentary on the brutal 1971 rebellion at Attica prison in New York was nominated for an Academy Award last week. It’s a high-profile moment for the bloody episode, many of the details of which ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state prison authorities have lifted a ban on a book about the 1971 Attica uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit. Author Heather Ann Thompson, a historian and ...

Fifty years ago this week, September 9-13, 1971, incarcerated men at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York took control of the state prison to demand humane treatment and better living.

MANHATTAN (CN) — “Attica! Attica!” was once a ubiquitous radical civil rights battle cry invoking state law enforcement’s violent attacks on inmates at New York’s Attica Correctional Facility in 1971.

In other book news, the historian Heather Ann Thompson is suing New York state prison authorities for banning her book about the deadly 1971 Attica prison rebellion. Thompson’s book, “Blood in the ...

Fifty years after the revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility, unanswered questions still bother those touched by what remains the nation’s deadliest prison uprising. What unknown details are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A year ago, the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1971 Attica prison uprising was the focus of documentaries, of discussions about ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Fifty years after the revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility, unanswered questions still bother those touched by what remains the nation’s deadliest prison uprising. What unknown ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul began sending the National Guard to New York’s prisons, where officers have refused to come to work in protest of what they say are hazardous conditions. By Ed Shanahan and Jan ...

Fifty years ago, amidst a nationwide swell of the prisoners’ rights movement, incarcerated people took control of Attica prison to negotiate an end to inhumane abuses. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller sent in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York authorities have lifted a ban that had stopped state prison inmates from reading a book about the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit ...