Frances Whalen for 33 years battled her own private demons after her husband, a prison guard, was killed in the 1971 Attica prison riot. Two weeks ago, in yet another in a relentless series of ...

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 ...

While the draft rejects the Attica victims group's plea that the state apologize for its handling of the riot, it acknowledges that warning signs about impending trouble in the prison in 1971 "went ...

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 — A judge has approved public disclosure of two remaining volumes from an investigation into the 1971 Attica prison riot and aftermath, but is excluding grand jury excerpts. Justice Patrick ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - They are gruesome artifacts of violence, suspended in time for 40 years. These surviving fragments underpin a narrative yet to be told from inside the Attica prison uprising. The ...

ATTICA — The Forgotten Victims of Attica will conduct its 40th anniversary observance of the Attica prison riot at 4 p.m. Tuesday in front of the prison. The state Department of Correctional Services ...