Members of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus are calling on lawmakers to pass a slate of prison ...

Lawmakers across Western New York are deeply concerned that Collins Correctional Facility could be on a state chopping block ...

Former correction officers filed a federal class-action lawsuit accusing New York of firing them during legally protected ...

At county jails in the Southern Tier, inmates who were sentenced for their crimes weeks or months ago are still waiting for ...

Strikes by correctional officers in the winter were meant to bring about a change for safer conditions for those who work in the facilities overseen by the Department of Corrections and Community ...

Several former New York State correction officers are suing the state and the Department of Corrections and Community ...

"This watchdog is a lapdog right now," Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, D-Brooklyn, said of the state’s Commission on ...

The cost of the project is almost double previous estimates. The majority will be paid by state and other funding sources, ...

The report, which spanned more than 150 pages, is a sweeping and captivating look at the events that set the historic escape in motion.

The Citizen looks at what life is currently like inside the prison through dozens of interviews with past and present ...

Dozens of New York lawmakers are demanding that the Department of Corrections to reinstate provisions of the controversial ...

The fatal beatings in recent months of inmates Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi by prison staff, as well as the March wildcat ...