In a news release issued Thursday, Erie County Personnel Commissioner Brian Bray said because of pending lawsuits, the county ...

Criminal justice experts say understaffing and trauma can contribute to prison violence. Mental health support and a sense of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul seems to have opened the door to permitting the roughly 2,000 state prison correctional officers who were fired last week to work for other law enforcement agencies in New York, ...

Nine people were hospitalized including nurses, correction officers and inmates at Attica Correctional Facility following three separate chemical exposure incidents.

Six New York prison guards have been indicted for second-degree murder in the beating death of an inmate, captured on ...

McIntosh said she covered documents with the substance and put those documents into envelopes disguised as legal mail using ...

New York must not let the correction officers' strike become an excuse for rolling back criminal justice reforms or worsening conditions for those in prisons.

Illegal strike by 12,000 NY corrections officers thinned staff even more, and cost money and lives, solved nothing.

New York's prisons are working to rebuild themselves after a devastating, 22-day strike of nearly 8,000 corrections officers and the firing of about 2,000. The independent citizens oversight group ...

A week after the end of a statewide unsanctioned correction officer strike, the New York state prison system is bringing back ...

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 man who died in an upstate prison Saturday allegedly at the hands of correction officers during a wildcat strike showed ...