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 ...

Fifty years ago, Attica maximum security prison in upstate New York was infamous for its harsh conditions. Prisoners were issued one roll of toilet paper each month. Asking for more meant risking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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