From overcrowding to violence, Attica remains one of New York’s most troubled prisons. Here’s what’s happening behind the ...

Attica Correctional Facility, located in Attica, New York, opened in 1931 as a maximum-security prison built to hold some of ...

Fifty years ago, amidst a nationwide swell of the prisoners’ rights movement, incarcerated people took control of Attica prison to negotiate an end to inhumane abuses. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller ...

On Sept. 9, 1971, a four-day uprising of more than 1,000 prison inmates began in New York state's Attica Correctional Facility, leading to the deadliest prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took ...

After the 2016 publication of Heather Ann Thompson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the 1971 Attica prison rebellion, Blood in the Water, three New York Times reporters sought to determine ...

But since the book’s publication in 2016, one group had been forbidden from reading it: people incarcerated at the Attica Correctional Facility and other New York state prisons. Ms. Thompson ...

New York state prisons cannot keep the Pulitzer-winning history of the 1971 Attica uprising from incarcerated men and women under a settlement with the state corrections department. Heather ...

Charley Joe Pernasilice, as he was known back then, was a 19-year-old temporary inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York when nearly 1,300 prisoners took it over on Sept.

The man who killed a Utica teenager in 2019 has been denied his appeal, according to a release by the New York State ...

High school students take AP® exams and IB exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level coursework. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP/IB exam ...