For half a century now, Attica, N.Y., has been more than a place. It's been a metaphor for just about everything that has been or still is wrong in America's prison system. That's because of what ...

If you are looking for information on Attica (2021), you are at the right place. The horror documentary film is set in the summer of 1971 tracing the conflicts between the guards and inmates at the ...

Back in the age when what we used to call the press was first discovering itself as “media,” there were unprecedented events — standoffs and uprisings, mass gatherings and cataclysms — that the new ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Teresa Miller, a professor in the University at Buffalo Law School specializing in criminal punishment, knows all too well the stereotypes of law students visiting prisons. People ...

The scene looks normal—a father kicking a soccer ball to his children, rubbing their heads in playful affection. The iconic towers and fence in the background tell the real story. “When they first ...

Murderers. Rapists. Armed robbers. Home invaders. Child molesters. The worst criminals in our society are behind bars at the Attica Correctional Facility, simply “Attica” for a generation that ...

BUFFALO — The scene looks normal — a father kicking a soccer ball to his children, rubbing their heads in playful affection. The iconic towers and fence in the background tell the real story. “When ...

The history of the 1971 rebellion at Attica state prison has been written and rewritten, edited and censored, distorted and forgotten. Everyone agrees, though, that on September 9, 1971, Attica’s ...