Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons. After the 2016 publication of Heather Ann ...

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 ...

An investigative report in the New York Times on Sunday about the Attica Correctional Facility has raised new questions about whether the troubled Wyoming County prison, home to the 1971 uprising, ...

So I went out to Attica and kept in constant touch with him, and he was right, the situation was deteriorating. The inmates certainly had gripes about conditions in the prison system, but if you -- it ...

On Sept. 13, 2007, as I was sitting in front of a tray in Clinton Correctional Facility’s mess hall, I got a warning from a fellow man. “Don’t eat,” he said. “It’s Attica Day.” As someone who was ...