County jails are holding larger numbers of state-ready inmates after the correction officer strike earlier this year and the ...

In a calendar year dominated by stories about prison violence, closures and a historic correction officer strike, a local ...

More than a dozen correction officers involved in the fatal beating a 22-year-old from Harlem at a New York state prison ...

Prison reforms are coming to New York after the state Assembly approved a sweeping package of changes. But lawmakers from our ...

Lawyers representing Messiah Nantwi’s estate filed a federal lawsuit on June 17 against correctional officers.

A new federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against the prison guards accused of brutally beating and killing 22-year-old ...

The New York State Legislature passed a package of prison reforms on the last day of the legislative session, sending the ...

Advocates say the governor and correction officials are exploiting a staffing crisis to bypass protections passed by a supermajority in 2021.

TOWN OF DICKINSON, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The New York State Association of Counties recently called on the state to take immediate ...

There’s more trouble brewing for an embattled Queens public defender office, as a lawyer there was busted for passing drugs to an incarcerated client just days after the group’s founder was charged ...

The bill package will now head to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk, and she could either sign, veto, or scale it back through ...

Inspections of any state correctional facility by the Correctional Association of New York will now be permitted with a 24-hour notice, in addition to requesting any data or documentation covered by ...