The author of Blood in the Water: The 1971 Uprising at Attica Prison and Its Legacy (2017) is suing the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervisions (DOCCS) for banning her book ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state prison authorities have lifted a ban on a book about the 1971 Attica uprising following a First Amendment lawsuit. Author Heather Ann Thompson, a historian and ...
New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered the closure of an upstate prison but opted not to close two more prisons, as had been previously approved in the state budget, managing to anger both ...