An Albany woman pleaded guilty Monday to lacing copy paper and business envelopes with synthetic marijuana and sending the ...

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

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 ...

That blueprint, titled “A Moment of Reckoning”, was outlined in a virtual press conference on Thursday. The blueprint calls for an end to prolonged solitary confinement, a pathway for release for ...

The legislature rejected Hochul’s central public safety policy priorities while embracing proposals to increase prison ...

UTICA — Six New York prison guards have been indicted for second-degree murder in the beating death of a handcuffed inmate, a brutal incident captured on body-worn cameras that triggered ...

The strike that paralyzed New York prisons for three weeks ended with most workers returning to their jobs and the state firing 2,000 who stayed out.

Gov. Kathy Hochul made good on a threat to punish those who failed to meet a Monday deadline for returning to their posts ...

The fallout from the 22-day strike by state correction officers which ended Monday has put more than 300 people awaiting ...

More than 2,000 New York prison guards who were fired for illegally walking off the job were barred Tuesday from being hired ...