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Attica Correctional Facility, located in Attica, New York, opened in 1931 as a maximum-security prison built to hold some of the state's most challenging inmates. Known for its high-security ...

After the 2016 publication of Heather Ann Thompson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of the 1971 Attica prison rebellion, Blood in the Water, three New York Times reporters sought to determine ...

NEW YORK — Thirty-nine inmates and prison employees were shot and killed by New York state police and corrections officers on September 13, 1971 inside Attica Prison near Buffalo.

In September 1971, the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York became the site of the largest prison uprising in U.S. history.