Corrections officers in New York say their working conditions are dangerous and they are forced into overtime. They have ...

But a joint statement issued Sunday by Senators James Skoufis, Pete Harckham, Michelle Hinchey and Rachel May calling for ...

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 ...

The commissioner of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision released a memo last week announcing that ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul won’t address striking corrections officers’ key gripe: the state’s 2021 HALT Act, which restricts ...

The New York state prison system is teetering on disaster as guards have staged an unsanctioned wildcat strike at almost all ...

Regulations that restrict use of solitary confinement are being temporarily suspended in the wake of prison strikes and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In 2021, former Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Human Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement ...

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

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