Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawyer Malcolm Bell was tasked with the prosecution of state police and others who may have committed crimes, including murder, ...

He was being held in the prison when inmates took it over in 1971. Murder charges against him were dropped, but he spent years trying to escape the memories. By Clay Risen From speed zones to traffic ...

Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons. Attica after state police stormed the prison, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Lennon and Yoko Ono chatted with host Dick Cavett 1971. (ABC/ANN LIMONGELLO) The concert took place 24 years ago, on Dec. 17, ...

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 brought by its ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1971 sued New York state prison authorities on Thursday, saying they’ve ...

For half a century now, Attica, N.Y., has been more than a place. It's been a metaphor for just about everything that has been or still is wrong in America's prison system. That's because of what ...

ATTICA — The fight of the Forgotten Victims of Attica is not over, a crowd of more than 400 people was told Tuesday. Jonathan Gradess, executive director of the New York State Defenders Association, ...

Elizabeth Fink, a civil rights attorney who fought successfully for compensation for inmate victims of the 1971 riot at Attica Correctional Facility, died on Sept. 22. Elizabeth Fink, a civil rights ...

Lawyer Malcolm Bell was tasked with the prosecution of state police and others who may have committed crimes, including murder, during the violent and deadly retaking of Attica prison on Sept. 13, ...

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 ...