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 ...

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 in a relentless series of ...

ALBANY — A judge has approved public disclosure of two remaining volumes from an investigation into the 1971 Attica prison riot and aftermath, but is excluding grand jury excerpts. Justice Patrick ...

While the draft rejects the Attica victims group's plea that the state apologize for its handling of the riot, it acknowledges that warning signs about impending trouble in the prison in 1971 "went ...

"The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know. In 1971, following a prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, state police and prison guards slaughtered ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A two-day conference on the Attica prison uprising is wrapping up on the 40th anniversary of the state police retaking the western New York correctional facility. State ...