It’s been 54 years since the infamous Attica prison uprising, when incarcerated men took over the maximum-security facility in western New York for nearly five days and drew nationwide attention to ...
The author of Blood in the Water: The 1971 Uprising at Attica Prison and Its Legacy (2017) is suing the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervisions (DOCCS) for banning her book ...
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 ...
An investigative report in the New York Times on Sunday about the Attica Correctional Facility has raised new questions about whether the troubled Wyoming County prison, home to the 1971 uprising, ...
Incarcerated people will be allowed to read Heather Ann Thompson's 2016 Blood in the Water, except for two pages featuring a map of the prison. A spokesperson from the New York State Department of ...