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 ...
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 ...
Introduction: State secrets -- The tinderbox: Frank "Big Black" Smith -- Power and politics unleashed: Michael Smith -- The sound before the fury: Tom Wicker -- Retribution and reprisals unimagined: ...