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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

ATTICA, N.Y. (WIVB) — After 13 years of digging through records, interviews, and searching for things she wasn’t supposed to find, Dr. Heather Ann Thompson is being recognized in the a big way. “I’m ...

Fifty years ago, Attica maximum security prison in upstate New York was infamous for its harsh conditions. Prisoners were issued one roll of toilet paper each month. Asking for more meant risking a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It was 52 years ago when the Attica prison uprising took place at the maximum security prison in upstate New York. Over 1,200 of the prisons 2,200 inmates took control. In the end 42 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...