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 ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The death of the only inmate convicted of murder following the 1971 Attica prison uprising was an accident caused by alcohol and cocaine use, Canadian officials said Monday. The ...

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. - Forty five years after the Attica prison uprising ended, a new effort from the state will give people a closer look at the deadly riot. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ...

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The mistreatment of inmates in New York State’s Attica Prison over 40 years ago is relevant in scrutinizing current U.S. prison policy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Thompson argued in the ...

A year ago, the 50th anniversary of the tragic 1971 Attica prison uprising was the focus of documentaries, of discussions about the carceral state then and now, and of a solemn remembrance that drew ...

As this paper’s late great photographer, Fred McDarrah, used to say when cornered by readers angry over something they disliked in its pages, “The Voice is many voices.” This is why Clark Whelton’s ...