New York’s governor says prison workers are being arrested today on murder charges in the death of an inmate who was beaten ...

Walter "King Tut" Johnson was sentenced to five life terms in 1997 by a judge who later released him from prison after 27 ...

An inmate at an upstate New York facility died early Saturday as an illegal guard strike at prisons across the state hits its ...

A state prisoner died early Saturday at Auburn Correctional Facility in the Finger Lakes region — in the midst of the ...

An alleged repeat drunk driving offender has been arrested again, according to authorities. New York State Police say a man ...

After nearly a week of prison strikes across the state of New York, including in the North Country, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) tells NBC5 that for every day ...

Correctional facilities are not meant to be pleasant, but ours have become perilous for correction officers and even more ...

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

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Legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul need to build on the momentum of the last few years and pass meaningful, modernized, ...

According to DOCCS, the inmate was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility on Saturday, Feb. 22.