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

A new state law that took effect this week authorizes emergency medical services crews to provide care or transportation to ...

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

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

At least a third of New York counties told the Legal Action Center that they currently provide some form of Medicaid ...

A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

In a first person essay, Derek Carter narrates his time volunteering as a peer counselor at his former South Carolina prison.

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

Maryland’s youth defendants are “languishing in custody while the wheels of adult courts slowly grind,” writes Vincent ...

The fatal beatings in recent months of inmates Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi by prison staff, as well as the March wildcat strike by thousands of corrections officers statewide, have shone a harsh ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — New York State lawmakers held a joint public hearing Wednesday to examine growing concerns over deaths in New York’s prisons, with grieving families, advocates, and the ...

This hour, we explore the state of prison reform in New York. Prison reform is back in the headlines in New York State, following a massive strike by corrections officers. The wildcat strike began ...