Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. H_Ko - stock.adobe.com An inmate at Attica Correctional Facility was found guilty Monday of assaulting a corrections officer ...

ATTICA, N.Y. — A former inmate at Attica Correctional Facility has been convicted of assaulting a corrections officer. A jury found Michael Nero, 45, guilty of assault this week. Nero had been serving ...

On Monday President Barack Obama, surrounded by members of his President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing—created in the wake of last year’s grand jury decisions in the police killings of Michael ...

An investigative report in the New York Times on Sunday about the Attica Correctional Facility has raised new questions about whether the troubled Wyoming County prison, home to the 1971 uprising, ...

On this day, Sept. 13, 1971, a four-day riot at Attica Prison in upstate New York came to a violent end as law enforcement officials opened fire, killing 29 inmates and 10 hostages and injuring many ...

A new documentary goes behind the walls of the deadly 1971 uprising. Attica filmmaker Stanley Nelson and former prisoner Arthur Harrison reflect... How the Attica prison uprising started — and why it ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Lennon and Yoko Ono chatted with host Dick Cavett 1971. (ABC/ANN LIMONGELLO) The concert took place 24 years ago, on Dec. 17, ...

"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 ...

WARSAW, N.Y. — An inmate at Attica Correctional Facility was found guilty Monday of assaulting a corrections officer following a two-day jury trial in Wyoming County. Michael Nero, 45, was convicted ...

Fifty years ago, Attica maximum security prison in upstate New York was infamous for its harsh conditions. Prisoners were issued one roll of toilet paper each month. Asking for more meant risking a ...