Corrections officers who have been on strike this week at nearly 30 state-run prisons will go to mediation to resolve their ...

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

Following an inmate uprising at Riverview Correctional Facility Thursday, Assemblyman Scott Gray, R-Watertown, has called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to suspend the HALT Act for a month in an effort to ...

State Senator Mark Walczyk and Assemblyman Scott Gray are on site at Riverview Correctional Facility as protests for safer ...

The strike, now involving at least 30 prisons across the state, is rooted in anger over limits on solitary confinement, ...

Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III issued a memo calling for a temporary pause to parts of the HALT Act—or—Humane ...

Hundreds of corrections officers walked off the job this week. They’re calling for the repeal of the Halt Act, a law that ...

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Correctional officers continued picketing outside of New York State prisons on Thursday despite Governor Hochul and union ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the head of the state corrections department are trying to use a combination of carrots and sticks to ...

Hundreds of corrections officers are striking in defiance of state law, claiming in part that the Humane Alternatives to Long ...

Two local elected officials have emphasized that ensuring safety at state correctional facilities must be a top priority.