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

On Friday morning, a woman incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County tried to get help. The ...

New York State prisons saw strikes, prison unrest and correctional officer charges in the beating death of an inmate.

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

Corrections officers are protesting — and in some areas, holding unsanctioned strikes — as current and former COs seek to bring attention to what they say are unfair working conditions and restrictive ...

There are three mediation dates set up for next week; however, New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has deployed National Guard troops to secure state-run prisons amid a wildcat strike by ...

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It's been 24 hours since Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order deploying the National Guard to the majority of New York ...

Correction officers retreated from inmate dorms at Riverview Correctional Facility in St. Lawrence County early Thursday ...

A wildcat strike by New York correction officers entered in its fifth day Friday, after Gov. Kathy Hochul deployed National ...

Prison strikes across the state continued Friday as correctional officers take to the picket line demanding better working ...