As evening fell on the first day of the 1971 prisoner uprising at Attica, a request was granted for a doctor to be allowed into D Yard, an area that was then under the control of the prisoners. That ...
A flash came across the morning news on September 9, 1971, that a riot had broken out at Attica, an upstate New York penitentiary. The inmates had taken over a part of the prison and were holding some ...
Buffalo Law Journal When a person is convicted of a crime and sent to prison, that may be the last time free citizens hear about them. "The public will wash their hands of it," said Attica ...
The investigative article by Tom Robbins A Brutal Beating Wakes Attica’s Ghosts is a poignant piece that struck a chord with me. After graduating from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1976, I taught a ...
The trouble with reporting on prisons is that most of the people you need to talk to don’t want to talk, for one reason or another. As veteran reporter Tom Robbins tells Assistant Managing Editor Eric ...
Some stories stick with you longer than others. First time you get to do a feature. First time you meet a sports legend (it was Allen Iverson for me). Seeing a championship isn’t bad, either. Been ...
In 1979 I began team-teaching creative writing at the Attica Correctional Facility. The other teacher, Jerome Washington, was a highly regarded writer and activist from Trenton, New Jersey. He was in ...
A New York couple is charged in connection with the apparent overdose deaths of two inmates at Attica Correctional Facility. U.S. Attorney William Hochul said Wednesday that Elizabeth Camue-Martinez ...
The first warnings were odd: The word from officials at the Attica Correctional Facility to local emergency dispatchers was to keep the village's fire siren blaring. Don't stop the siren, the ...
A new documentary goes behind the walls of the deadly 1971 uprising. More than a thousand prisoners organized to overtake the notorious prison, hold guards hostage, and use them as a bargaining chip ...
Three inmates have been charged with killing a fellow prisoner inside the Attica Correctional Facility. Rodney Calloway, 26, was attacked May 8 while in the "A" yard during a recreational period. He ...
Read an excerpt from Heather Ann Thompson's new book 'Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy' After being given assurance of safe passage by the prisoners in the DMZ, ...
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