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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Brooks wasn’t able to join the “second-chance club,” as his father called it, after corrections officers violently beat him ...

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