A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, ...
Robert Douglass served as Counsel and later Secretary to Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller from 1965 to 1972. At Rockefeller's request, he was sent to Attica during the uprising to represent the governor ...
He was being held in the prison when inmates took it over in 1971. Murder charges against him were dropped, but he spent years trying to escape the memories. By Clay Risen From speed zones to traffic ...
ATTICA — The fight of the Forgotten Victims of Attica is not over, a crowd of more than 400 people was told Tuesday. Jonathan Gradess, executive director of the New York State Defenders Association, ...