Robert Douglass served as Counsel and later Secretary to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller from 1965 to 1972. At Rockefeller's request, he was sent to Attica during the uprising to represent the governor ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 40 years after the nation’s bloodiest prison rebellion, newly released documents contain accounts, some never before seen publicly, from National Guardsmen and a doctor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Sept. 13, 1971, as the Attica prison riot comes to a bloody conclusion. A look back at local ...

Lawyer Malcolm Bell was tasked with the prosecution of state police and others who may have committed crimes, including murder, during the violent and deadly retaking of Attica prison on Sept. 13, ...

In 1975 CQMalcolm Bell accused state officials of a cover-up of his investigation into whether State Police and others who stormed the Attica prison committed crimes, including murder. A separate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawyer Malcolm Bell was tasked with the prosecution of state police and others who may have committed crimes, including murder, ...