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 as a ...

In this Sept. 10, 1971, file photo, inmates wearing cloaks and football helmets stand behind bars in a corridor leading to D block as they begin negotiatiations with New York State officials after a ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - They are gruesome artifacts of violence, suspended in time for 40 years. These surviving fragments underpin a narrative yet to be told from inside the Attica prison uprising. The ...