Prison populations and staffing levels have dropped by 50% in recent decades. Now, Gov. Hochul wants the authority to shutter ...

State senator Rob Rolison has called for an investigation into similar incidents. Previously, eight officers were reported sick at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Sullivan County.

A former inmate who spent years at a Westchester prison for a murder he didn't commit shared his story with some high schoolers in Ossining on Friday. Eric Glisson said his story is living proof that ...

ATTICA — Weekend visitation has reopened at all New York State correctional facilities. The update was announced Thursday by ...

A Cohoes man was sentenced on Friday to 10 to 14 years in prison for two Albany burglaries, including stealing more than ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — More than 100 new Department of Correction officers will soon be deployed across New York City. The ...

Three men who pleaded guilty to burglary in a home invasion and shooting case in Ellenville were sentenced to prison terms ...

Ottar Nordfjord and Thordur Palsson, the creative duo behind the Netflix thriller The Valhalla Murders, are working on an Icelandic-Finnish series about climate disaster. Appropriately titled ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A strike that paralyzed New York's prison system for three weeks ended Monday with most workers returning to their jobs and state officials firing about 2,000 holdouts who ...

ALBANY — More than 2,000 correction officers who are being terminated after they declined to report for duty following a statewide prison strike are being prohibited from trying to get their ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The government of New York won’t rehire prison guards who participated in the illegal strike that upended the state for 22 days. That’s according to Gov. Kathy ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state’s correctional system ...