Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons. Attica after state police stormed the ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Elizabeth Fink, the firebrand lawyer who fought tirelessly for justice for inmates at the violent 1971 Attica prison riot, has died. Fink, 70, died Tuesday in New York City ...

On a snowy day in February 2014, our editor, Bill Keller, and I met with Soffiyah Elijah, who at the time was running the Correctional Association of New York, a prison oversight organization. She ...

Forty years ago, Michael S. Smith was a 22-year-old corrections officer who was beaten by inmates when the Attica prison uprising began Sept. 9, 1971. Two inmates, one of them named Donald Noble ...

TenHaken and Jamison don’t want a new state prison, or any expansion of the prison, built across the Big Sioux River from the ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The death of Robert Brooks led to a new package of bills that tackles prison reform ... the criminal justice system since the Attica prison riot.

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Trump’s plan to expel alleged gang members to El Salvador relies on the country’s 36-year-old prison director, whom U.S. officials have sanctioned for ...

A movie armorer convicted in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western movie “Rust” was released from a New Mexico prison on Friday after completing an ...

A former police chief who was convicted of rape and murder escaped from the prison where he was serving a 30-year sentence on Sunday, correction officials said. Grant Hardin had been at North ...

MUHAMMAD FACES UP TO LIFE IN PRISON. HE WAS TAKEN AWAY TO START HIS A Manchester man who pleaded guilty to murdering his son will spend 45 years to life in prison. Murtadah Mohammad apologized in ...