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 ...

Something remarkable has gone down in prisons across the country over the last few weeks. This new round of protests was meant to commemorate the 1971 takeover of Attica prison, which was brutally ...