A New York State trooper holds a burnt cap of a guard taken hostage during the Attica uprising in September 1971. In 1973, lawyers representing 1,281 inmates filed a $2 billion class-action ...

When a helicopter flew over the yard at Attica Correctional Facility on Sept. 13, 1971, five days into a takeover of the prison by its 1,300 inmates, some of the prisoners thought it held New York … ...

A new documentary goes behind the walls of the deadly 1971 uprising. Attica filmmaker Stanley Nelson and former prisoner Arthur Harrison reflect on the five-day revolt, and its lasting legacy.