Sierra Johnson is one of nearly 1,600 women who filed claims under the Adult Survivors Act alleging sexual abuse in state ...

After calling for help, state troopers and firefighters who arrived at the old Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill at about 12:04 a.m. on June 14 found him stuck in the cell and helped him out ...

At an Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Claudia Tenney raised concerns about human trafficking, drug smuggling, and the ...

New York State lawmakers have passed prison reform bills aimed at overhauling the state’s watchdog agency, the State ...

have long protested against the borough-based jail planned in the neighborhood but now propose moving construction.

ALBANY — The last six unprecedented months in New York’s prison system, which included a fatal beating of a prisoner and the longest strike by prison guards in state history, could create an ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — A Downstate New York woman is charged with sending drug-coated mail to inmates at a local state prison. New York State Police said Elyse DeGeorge, 30, of Poughkeepsie ...

UTICA, N.Y. — State prison leader Daniel Martuscello "vowed" to ensure violence did not become normalized within the New York State Department of Corrections & Community Supervision (DOCCS ...

(AP) -- Multiple New York prison guards have been indicted in connection with the “disturbing” death of an inmate last month during a wildcat officers’ strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday.

April 16 (Reuters) - A New York grand jury charged two prison guards with second-degree murder and eight others with related crimes, in the beating death of an inmate last month at a prison in ...