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

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

The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) announced that the Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County was placed on lockdown following an early morning ...

Six New York inmates who filed a lawsuit against the corrections department after its decision to lockdown prisons during the total solar eclipse on April 8 will be able to view it after a settlement.

Stan Germán, executive director of the New York County Defender Services, called Nantwi the “latest victim” of the New York State’s Department of Corrections.

Workers at several New York state facilities are picketing in the wake of what they consider the state's failure to make any changes. "Every state prison has come together," a correctional worker ...

There are currently 31,469 inmates in state correctional facilities, down from a system-wide high of 72,773 in 1999. Get Tri-state area news delivered to your inbox with NBC New York's News ...

New York State also offers an online Correction Officer Trainee exam for positions located at New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) correctional facilities.

Nearly 40% of inmates housed at the Elmira Correctional Facility, a state prison in Elmira, New York, were COVID-19 positive as of Tuesday — 588 out of a population of 1,515, according to data ...