The murder has led to more tumult than New York’s prison system has seen since the Attica prison uprising over five decades ago.

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 measures, ...

Elizabeth Fink, a civil rights attorney who fought successfully for compensation for inmate victims of the 1971 riot at Attica Correctional Facility, died on Sept. 22. Elizabeth Fink, a civil rights ...

This month marks the 45th anniversary of one of the most significant prison uprising in American history. We look back at the week in 1971 when inmates at Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state prison authorities have lifted a ban on a book about the 1971 Attica uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit. Author Heather Ann Thompson, a historian and ...

ATTICA — An inmate has been charged in connection with a stabbing last year at Attica Correctional Facility, state police said. Juan Diaz, 27, allegedly stabbed another inmate multiple times with a ...

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A Rochester man in prison for the 2012 murder of a young community activist was convicted by a jury of taking part in a violent gang assault in Attica Correctional Facility.

A former Attica Correctional Facility inmate being held at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, and a former inmate at the Wyoming Correctional Facility now being house at the Orleans ...