BUFFALO, N.Y. — While an illegal strike by state corrections officers continues, Governor Hochul wants to further shake-up the prison system in New York with more proposed cutbacks.

Gov. Kathy Hochul once dubbed Hazel Dukes, the venerable leader of State’s NAACP chapter, “my mom on Earth.” But Dukes and her board said Tuesday they are “profoundly ...

The NAACP board said they are “profoundly disturbed” over the governor’s decision to suspend elements of the HALT solitary ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- Yesterday in Oneida County Court, a defendant in the case involving the beating death of a Marcy Correctional Facility inmate by correctional officers was charged with murder. Nicholas ...

An inmate died in a New York prison as guards at prisons across the state continue their strike, which union officials ...

The name of the sixth prison guard indicted for murder in the beating death of a handcuffed inmate at the Marcy Correctional ...

New York State Police are investigating the significant vandalism and fire last week inside one of the busses used to ...

A sixth corrections officer has been arraigned on a murder charge in the death of Robert Brooks, the Greece man who was ...

A sixth correction officer was arraigned Monday on a second-degree murder charge in connection to the death of inmate Robert ...

Nine other guards were charged last week in the beating death of the inmate. The top charge was second-degree murder.

Corrections officers object to even limited constraints on their ability to impose a regime of terror on inmates.

The state prison system on Monday evening announced it was moving inmates out of medium-security Collins Correctional ...