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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The deadly Attica uprising will be the focus of an annual commemoration Wednesday on prison grounds at the Attica Correctional Facility. The Forgotten Victims of Attica and New York State corrections ...

Inmates at the Attica Correctional Facility give the Black Power salute, 1971. (Photo by Bettmann / Getty Images) Turn in your “Right on’s” and “Power to the People’s.” Feel the beat of a Cracker club ...

The conference, 40 Years After the Attica Uprising: Looking Back, Moving Forward, held September 12 and 13, 2011, was sponsored by the University at Buffalo School of Law and The Baldy Center for Law ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Department of Africana and American Studies and the UB Libraries are hosting the exhibit “Open Wounds: The Fifty-Year Legacy of the Attica Prison Uprising.” In September 1971, inmate frustration ...

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 ...