Sen. Dan Stec says he'll vote down any budget bills that don't lead to increased safety protections for correctional officers ...

A large fight involving 16 inmates at Auburn Correctional Facility was broken up with chemical agents and pepper spray, ...

A new law, sponsored by State Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton (D-North Shore/South Brooklyn), will require judges and district ...

An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime ...

Sen. Dan Stec says he'll vote down any budget bills that don't lead to increased safety protections for correctional officers.

When [former Attorney General] Bill Barr unconstitutionally had me removed from my federal location monitoring agreement ...

After almost three decades on the run, Stephan Smerk has been sentenced for first-degree murder in crime ‘among the worst’ ...

A 16-month-old girl was killed in an accident on a farm in Lancaster County. The coroner's office said the toddler died from ...

A promised prison overhaul is on a collision course with New York’s long history of keeping basic information about abuses and killings hidden from the public ...

The city Correction Department has seen a mysterious jump over the past 18 months in the numbers of officers taking time off ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities ...