Cinematic portrayals of inmates being thrown in a dingy, small, unlit cell with no running water and only a slit in the door for occasional food for years on end, is not the reality in New York state ...

Albay County Sheriff Craig Apple said the Legislature needs to reevaluate the solitary confinement law because it is making prisons more dangerous. The HALT legislation limits the amount of time that ...

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday announced plans to stage a sit-in and peaceful protest outside Adiala ...

In a direct appeal to Gov. Kathy Hochul, members of the Assembly Minority Conference are calling for the immediate repeal of ...

Men imprisoned at Woodbourne Correctional Facility said they had been denied hot meals and confined to their cells.

One civil rights complaint alleged that staff in a Buffalo facility retaliated against hunger-striking detainees through ...

Assemblymen Jeff Gallahan and John Lemondes, both of whom represent portions of Cayuga County, sponsored the portable toilets ...

New York State prisons saw strikes, prison unrest and correctional officer charges in the beating death of an inmate.

Despite demands from the State of New York that they end their wildcat strike, and some concessions made on the part of the ...

In our opinion, Gov. Kathy Hochul took the wrong first step when prison workers went on strike Monday in Collins, Brocton and more than two dozen other state prisons. Because the governor didn’t ...

Some are questioning the timing of these illegal strikes, saying they're really intended to cover up the fallout of the ...