A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

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

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

It’s been more than a year since Virginia’s General Assembly voted to create an office that would investigate claims against ...

ALBANY — New York is being accused by a congressional committee of using an unlawful strategy to withhold state Medicaid ...

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

In the wake of Robert Brooks’ death at the hands of corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility late last year, lawmakers in Albany are now set to approve a new omnibus bill meant to increase ...

Jonaiki Martinez-Estrella got a break when an appellate court overturned his first-degree murder conviction — but ultimately ...

The state prison system has been in crisis since thousands of corrections officers walked off the job for an illegal wildcat strike earlier this year. Hochul fired 2,000 of them who refused to ...

Many of the prison officers already face criminal charges after the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision launched an investigation into Nantwi’s death on March 2, 2025.

Social services agencies across the state now place nearly half of all individuals and families seeking shelter in hotels, ...