Last year, the Legal Aid Society, Disability Rights Advocates, and Winston & Strawn LLP filed a class action lawsuit against DOCCS, accusing the department of violating HALT by holding people with ...

The corrections officer strike ended several weeks ago, but its impacts continue to be felt. National Guard deployment costs ...

he was sent to Attica during the uprising to represent the governor and to help quell the riot and appease the inmates. Frank Smith was an inmate at the prison and acted as a guard during the ...

One person incarcerated at Attica Correctional Facility told Legal Aid he was unable ... Several said they feared being injured or even killed by guards, citing the murder of Robert Brooks ...

One hostage, a prison guard, told of his ordeal ... Announcer: 43 men eventually died from the Attica uprising. Attorney William Kunstler puts the blame for their deaths on Governor Rockefeller.

Attica, N.Y. (WHAM) — All New York state prisons are resuming visitations this weekend, but new restrictions have been made following several calls for possible exposures to unknown substances last ...

A TV-movie re-creation of the tragic events which followed the Attica Correctional Facility rebellion of September 9, 1971. Inmates demanding better food and living conditions took 38 guards as ...

New York State is preparing to send the New York National Guard to staff prisons across the state where corrections officers have gone on strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office said Tuesday. Corrections ...

ATTICA, N.Y. — Two people are in a hospital ... The hospitalizations come less than two weeks after the New York State prison guard strike ended. Afterward, Kathy Hochul banned correctional ...