The state has temporarily suspended parts of the HALT Act, a law limiting how long an inmate can be placed in solitary ...

A suspected drugs boss known as "The Fly" has been recaptured nine months after escaping during an ambush that killed two ...

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

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

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

Efforts to resolve the ongoing strike by New York state correction officers will begin next week with mediation led by Martin Scheinman, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul. Scheinman has already held ...

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

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 ...

Correction officers remained out on the picket lines in Coxsackie on Friday. It marked the third day of correction officers ...