By Benjamin Oreskes Reporting from the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. The close of New York State’s legislative session in ...

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

State prison officials have replaced the superintendent at a Central New York prison where guards fatally beat an inmate earlier this year. Thomas Delmar started May 12 as the new superintendent at ...

A federal judge sentenced an ex-New York police officer to 18 months in prison over his 2023 conviction for acting as an illegal agent for the People's Republic of China, the Justice ...

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 ...

Ten years ago Friday, the North Country woke up to the news that two dangerous criminals had escaped from one of the state’s maximum security prisons. The towering white walls of Clinton ...

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

Few seem more frustrated than those pushing for state prison reform in the wake of the murder of Robert ... civil rights union organizer for VOCAL-NY. “When does that start? When do you start ...