Thursday afternoon, Commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Daniel Martuscello, III released ...

Provisions of HALT Act allow for temporary suspension when "circumstances create a significant and unreasonable risk to the ...

New York’s top corrections official declared a “prison-wide state of emergency” Thursday and temporarily suspended parts of ...

Six New York prison workers have been indicted on charges of second-degree murder in the beating death of an incarcerated man ...

Dozens of correctional facilities canceled prison visits one day after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order to provide National Guard members to provide extra security.

Corrections officers at DOCCS facilities across New York state are on strike. The National Guard has been activated and ...

NYS DOCCS issued a memo on a "Path to Restoring Workforce" as corrections officers continue to strike across the state.

The corrections officers involved in the death of inmate Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility on Dec. 9 have ...

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has suspended parts of HALT and took other actions in an attempt to end the correction officer strike.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order activating guard members at prisons across the state where workers walked out for ...

Auburn, N.Y. — National Guard personnel were deployed Wednesday to the Auburn Correctional Facility as a wildcat strike by ...

The situation regarding hundreds of state correction officers not showing up for work in protest of working conditions inside prisons has prompted the governor to ready the New York National Guard.