During the strikes, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) asked Governor ...

A New York judge reinstated restrictions on solitary confinement, challenging the state's correction department's extended ...

Angela Wells claims racism and retaliation at work. With a hearing set for 2026, she seeks justice after facing threats and ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision violated “the separation of powers” by temporarily suspending a law that sets ...

Advocates for inmates who have refused food are in disagreement with prison officials over when the protest started.

Corrections officers working in state prisons are no longer striking, but that doesn’t mean the problems in the state prison system are over. The state is still dealing with a staffing crisis in its ...

A judge granted a preliminary injunction against state prisons employing solitary confinement despite banning it last Wednesday, July 2.

Big Law is mulling simply sitting out the New York City’s race rather than risk backing another losing political candidate.

A state lawmaker wants to triple the rate local jails are paid to house inmates who are waiting to be transferred to a state ...

Late last month, city Correction Department officials asked the jail oversight board to expand bed capacity in certain Rikers ...

A New York State prison guard is suing the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, claiming she ...

Correction officers at least 25 prisons in upstate New York have taken "illegal job action," the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said, as protests formed Tuesday at ...