As New York City celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding, National Geographic looks back on more than a century of ...

In the early 1880s, multiple state institutions were divided throughout the Dakota Territory. Those institutions included the ...

During the strikes, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) asked Governor Kathy Hochul to suspend or restructure HALT to get people back to work. Former ...

Todd Chrisley knows best when it comes to the prison system. In May, the reality star, 56, and his wife, Julie Chrisley, 52, were pardoned by President Donald Trump after being convicted of fraud ...

A state court will temporarily overturn a New York prison agency policy that indefinitely suspended a solitary confinement reform law across its facilities. The Department of Corrections and Community ...

Officer Shot By Fellow Cop While Being Served Restraining Order ID'd As New Mom A North Andover police officer is recovering in the hospital after she was shot by a fellow officer during a call to her ...

A proposal mandates Green Bay Correctional Institution to be closed by the end of 2029, persuading the state to implement a plan for the closure in this time frame.

One of the men convicted in the murder of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz has been found dead behind bars. On Friday, Jonaiki Martinez-Estrella, 31, was discovered unresponsive in his cell at Coxsackie ...

Estrella, convicted in the 2018 machete murder of Bronx teen Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz, was found dead at Coxsackie Correctional Facility in New York. He delivered the fatal blow in the gang ...

Peter Braunstein, 61, has been inside an upstate New York prison since 2007, following his conviction on kidnapping, sexual abuse, robbery, and burglary charges.

Two smugglers convicted in the deaths of 53 migrants in a sweltering truck in Texas will spend the rest of their lives in prison.