New York prisons are now short 4,500 correction officers, including the 2,000 fired for illegally striking. It’s a dangerous situation that requires, as state Inspector General Lucy Lang states, ...

It comes more than six months after Robert L. Brooks died at Marcy Correctional Facility following a brutal beating from ...

The beating deaths of two incarcerated men at Oneida County prisons has spurred a package of oversight reforms passed by the NY Senate and Assembly.

New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang said she is hopeful "the facilities in the North Country are doing all they can to prevent this kind of catastrophe from occurring again." ...

Ten years have passed since Richard Matt and David Sweat's daring escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015, an ...

New York’s state inspector is reflecting on the 10-year anniversary since the escape at Dannemora. Inspector General Lucy ...

The role of Black prisoners helped lead to the practice of using genetic testing to understand how patients will react to ...

A Department of Corrections report shows that 59 people have died in New York prisons since the beginning of the year, with ...

The bill package will now head to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk, and she could either sign, veto, or scale it back through ...

New York State is reworking its development plans for the former Downstate Correctional Facility just outside of Beacon, ...