Prisons New York State

Kenneth Kimes, who along with his mother was convicted earlier this year in the murder of a missing Manhattan socialite, took a reporter captive for several hours Tuesday at the prison where he is serving a sentence of more than 120 years to life. Kimes grabbed the reporter for Court TV at 2:20 p.

New York state agreed Tuesday to pay $8 million to inmates caught up in the 1971 Attica riot, settling a 25-year-old lawsuit over the nation's deadliest prison uprising.

Ted Conover got clocked in the head, screamed at daily, humiliated by society's rejects for seven months straight and given the silent treatment by his wife--all in the name of experiential journalism.

As Jean Harris gets up and starts to walk away, her foot catches a leg of the chair and she stumbles backward, gracefully almost, as if in slow motion, grazing her head against a window sill as she falls to the floor.

A make-believe prison emergency, intended as a training game for corrections officers, sent flak-jacketed state troopers off on a wild-goose chase Thursday with sirens screeching and a helicopter fluttering above.

The estate of former Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller is not financially responsible for deaths that occurred during the uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in 1971, a federal judge ruled Friday.