Local leaders passed resolutions calling for the city and county to move toward zeroing out the number of youth in detention.

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

Eric Schneiderman is advising the father of Brooks, who was beaten to death in an upstate prison late last year.

New York’s prisons are teeming with aging inmates at increasing costs to the taxpayer, and people are no safer from crime, ...

The building, with “Statue of Liberty views,” will house low-income residents and formerly incarcerated individuals.

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Senator Dan Stec (R, C-Queensbury) is Introducing legislation to make body scanners mandatory for incarcerated individuals as ...

Trans people face a heightened risk of violence when confined in prison facilities that don’t align with their gender.

A lawsuit filed this week alleges that the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women in Chino ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication ... During a 2022 visit to Albion prison, a ...

New York's state prison system is under scrutiny after guards fatally beat an inmate last month. North Country Public Radio's Emily Russell reports the incident prompted protests and calls for ...