One of the officers, Michael Williams, was in training. He and another officer, Rohail Khan, have pleaded guilty in federal ...

At Rockefeller's request, 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 ...

Announcer: Four days had passed since the 1,200 inmates at the Attica State Correctional Facility in New York had taken over. They had 38 hostages. They made demands to the State Correctional ...

For years afterward, the creator of that film, "It's A Wonderful Life," received letters from those men about how they were ...

Supreme Court standards prohibit officer use of force only if it is "malicious and sadistic." Courts rarely rule that extreme ...

In 1971, New York state forces stormed and regained control of Attica state prison in a riot that killed 43 people. In 1993, ...