Attica Correctional Facility, located in Attica, New York, opened in 1931 as a maximum-security prison built to hold some of the state's most challenging inmates. Known for its high-security ...

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 ...

News about Attica Correctional Facility, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

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 ...

Former inmate Willie J. Sullivan will receive $125,000 because police punished him for the Attica prison riot by shooting him in the back, kicking him in the head and threatening ...

R. Kelly's attorneys file an emergency motion seeking home detention, alleging that prison officials are scheming with racist inmates to have the singer killed.

Public Safety Contraband entering federal prison in Sheridan through drone and duffel bag drops, feds say Published: Jun. 13, 2025, 7:00 a.m.

A Monterey County prison gang leader was one of four sentenced for directing other members and associates to perform criminal acts, including selling drugs and murder.

The city received permission from the state to house migrants at the former Lincoln Correctional Facility in Harlem, the mayor's office said Saturday.

Men who stole $6.4M toilet from Winston Churchill's birthplace sentenced to prison The 18-carat, fully functioning toilet was on display as contemporary art at Blenheim Palace when burglars yanked ...

A 74-year-old Paterson man was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in state prison for sexually assaulting a child and a teenager.