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From overcrowding to violence, Attica remains one of New York’s most troubled prisons. Here’s what’s happening behind the walls today. LeBron James's Agent Has Blunt Message for Lakers After Picking ...
Just 90 minutes from Cleveland, Attica Raceway Park hosts 900-horsepower sprint cars reaching 100 mph on a dirt track with ...
A new documentary goes behind the walls of the deadly 1971 uprising. Attica filmmaker Stanley Nelson and former prisoner Arthur Harrison reflect on the five-day revolt, and its lasting legacy.
Attica’s men succeeded in getting New York’s Commissioner of Corrections Russell Oswald to agree in negotiations to “provide adequate medical care,” as well as to “access to outside ...
But Attica was the bloodiest, most dramatic event in the history of U.S. prisons, and it has been lodged in the American consciousness, potent and divisive, ever since.
Josh Smith took the Attica Red Ramblers to new heights in the early 2000s. Last month, his career was recognized at a banquet ...
ATTICA, N.Y. -- Shortly after noon on Sept. 13, 1971, Dr. Robert Jenks, a staff physician at Batavia's Genesee Memorial Hospital, entered hell — the Attica prison grounds where a violent state ...
“Attica is a story that’s evergreen,” Nelson said in an interview with IndieWire. “We could have made the film at any time and the conversations would be the same, on mass incaceration ...
When a helicopter flew over the yard at Attica Correctional Facility on Sept. 13, 1971, five days into a takeover of the prison by its 1,300 inmates, some of the prisoners thought it held New York … ...