In January 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed their protest song “Attica State” on The David Frost Show, sparking a rare live debate with the studio audience. The historic exchange, centered on ...

ATTICA, N.Y. – On the 18th day of the prison guard strike, a special moment was witnessed outside the walls of the Attica prison. It was a meeting at the prison strike camp with two guards returning ...

WARSAW, N.Y. — A Wyoming County man will serve at least 15 years in prison for crimes committed against a civilian employee at the Attica Correctional Facility. Emmanuel Jenkins, 38, was sentenced on ...

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 ...

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, ...

Six correction officers were injured during a violent altercation with an inmate at a New York prison, with one officer seriously hurt.

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 ...

Warsaw, N.Y. — A serial rapist who was already imprisoned has received his sentence after being convicted of attempting to rape a prison employee. Emmanuel Jenkins, now 38, isolated and attacked a ...

John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman has been transferred from the prison where he's spent the last 30 years. Chapman was moved from Attica Correctional Facility to another maximum security jail in ...

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 ...

John Lennon in 1977 in New York City. In September 1971, the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York became the site of the largest prison uprising in U.S. history. After years of brutal ...