California Gov. Gavin Newsom is vowing to reject a bill which would limit cooperation between state prisons and federal ...

In the wake of further violence in state prisons, North Country lawmakers are again calling for drastic prison reform. “It is ...

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

Centenarian Loretta Chamberlain spent her special day getting fingerprinted, meeting a K-9 and briefly being locked in a cell ...

The college launched a Hawaiian studies program at Halawa Correctional Facility in 2022, but found many students dropped out ...

An incident at the Collins Correctional Facility led to a lockdown Wednesday for the facility’s staff and incarcerated individuals. Following a statement earlier Wednesday, at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday ...

A former Marcy Correctional Facility inmate is suing the prison, a correction officers and several others for planting drugs on him.The one officer named in this suit admitted to doing the crime and ...

The Collins Correctional Facility remains on lockdown as of Wednesday evening after an incident earlier in the day.

"The staffing issue in the Department of Corrections is the number one issue in the state of New York of any agency we have," said NYS Sen. Robert Rolison (R-39th District), while questioning NYDOCCS ...

New York state prisons are being told to act as if 70 percent staffing is now 100 percent staffing, detailed in a memo ...

The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a ...

Her bucket-list wish was to get thrown in the can. A Western New York woman lived out a life-long wish for her 104th birthday celebration, when some sheriffs officers allowed her spend some time ...