The lockdown at Collins Correctional Facility in southern Erie County has ended. The prison had been locked down for three days to be searched, the state reporting several weapons found on inmates.

Attacks on law-abiding correctional officers by inmates are becoming all-too-routine news items across this region and New York state in recent months. This week’s lockdown at Collins is one more ...

The list of disapproved books include such titles as: "Game of Thrones," "The Kite Runner," "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Lady Gaga - Born to be Free." But most books that are banned seem to be ...

At least nine prison employees will be charged next week in sealed indictments issued by a grand jury in the death of inmate Robert Brooks, according to a source familiar with the case. The ...

A grand jury in Oneida County has handed up charges against correction officers involved in the Dec. 9 beating of an inmate ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

President Donald Trump's newly installed attorney general, Pam Bondi, has ordered the transfer of a federal inmate to Oklahoma so he can ...

A grand jury in Oneida County has handed up a sealed indictment regarding the fatal beating of Marcy Correctional Facility ...

A civil rights action lawsuit has been filed in Oneida County Court of Claims alleging excessive force, false imprisonment, ...

A lawsuit filed in December claims that three corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility "planted drugs" on an ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in ...

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 ...