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

Opinion: Pace University professor Michael Mushlin says New York state prison systems need to reevaluate prison environments ...

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

In 2016, dozens of Mid-State corrections officers brutally jumped on, kicked and sodomized inmates. Judge Anthony Brindisi ...

Fired correction officers rally at the NYS capitol calling for accountability and real solutions to address rising violence ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Squatting is no longer an issue for Brian Rodriguez, the man at the center of a series of 7 On Your Side Investigations. A new home has been assigned for him - in prison.

Two upstate New York counties are suing to overturn an order by Gov. Kathy Hochul that temporarily bars them from hiring former prison workers who were fired by the state after refusing to end an ...

Kristi Noem’s trip to a prison in El Salvador drew social media attention for the homeland security secretary’s choice to wear a gold Rolex in such a setting. By Joseph Bernstein Joseph ...

Marcy, N.Y. — Two state corrections officers put on leave after the death of an inmate this month were involved in an infamous beatdown of inmates at the same facility nine years ago.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of cryptocurrency platform FTX, has been transferred out of a federal prison in New York City to be placed in a different detention center, roughly a year ...

Progressive lawmakers have re-surfaced legislation first introduced four years ago that would triple membership of what they say is the underfunded and understaffed State Commission of Correction. But ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — Dozens of former correction officers gathered at the New York State Capitol Thursday ... also ignoring deeper issues within the prison system. They no longer feel that ...