Three New York state prisons are slated to shutter by next spring, officials said Monday — a cost-cutting measure that will save the state millions, yet has many Republican lawmakers up in ar… ...

For the first time in months, the number of New Yorkers being processed into the state’s prisons is higher than the number ...

Sadie Bell is one of the over 750 women set to sue over sexual abuse in New York correctional facilities under the Adult Survivors Act. Later, she started experiencing severe pain and when a ...

The corrections department also hired a private consultant, the Moss Group, weeks after the January cell extractions, and Mr. Murphy commissioned the state’s former comptroller, Matt Boxer, to ...

NEW YORK (AP) Sexual abuse and harassment of women in New York State prisons persists and flourishes because the state's "zero tolerance" policy is a sham, a lawsuit says. The lawsuit filed ...

Six female prisoners filed a lawsuit against the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), the agency that manages New York’s state prison system, last month. The ...

Under the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act, which went into effect across New York on March 31, prisons and jails aren’t allowed to hold people with physical or ...

It passed in New York, and now other states may follow. Skip to ... But attorneys estimate that more than 100 people in the state’s women’s prisons might have viable cases, along with some in ...

Aylyn Restitutyo stepped off a bus from Rikers Island, blinking as her eyes readjusted to New York City after 10 difficult years behind bars. She was sent to an in-patient facility, alone, and ...