In January 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed their protest song “Attica State” on The David Frost Show, sparking a rare live debate with the studio audience. The historic exchange, centered on ...

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 ...

A new video has just been released of John Lennon and Yoko Ono performing at a benefit concert for the families of those killed in New York's Attica prison in 1971.The concert took place 24 years ago, ...

Answering the call of those locked up in Alabama and Texas prisons, incarcerated people in 40 prisons in 24 states across the U.S. have initiated a work strike to coincide with the 45th anniversary of ...

ALBANY – The union representing state troopers went to court Friday to ask a state judge to block release of secret documents that might shed more light into the state’s handling of the Attica prison ...

In this Sept. 10, 1971, file photo, inmates wearing cloaks and football helmets stand behind bars in a corridor leading to D block as they begin negotiatiations with New York State officials after a ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - They are gruesome artifacts of violence, suspended in time for 40 years. These surviving fragments underpin a narrative yet to be told from inside the Attica prison uprising. The ...

A lockdown at the Attica Correctional Facility was lifted after a nine-day search of the maximum security men’s prison in Wyoming County, the state Corrections Department announced. The “overall ...