As statewide prison strikes entered a fifth straight day Friday, corrections officers said they were not fazed by potential ...

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

The correction officers strike against prisons managed by the New York State Department of Corrections is nearing a week in ...

State Senator Mark Walczyk and Assemblyman Scott Gray are on site at Riverview Correctional Facility as protests for safer working conditions enters day four. Gray told North ...

Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III issued a memo calling for a temporary pause to parts of the HALT Act—or—Humane ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing that up to five more New York state prisons be closed — in what critics are calling a ...

Talks between the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) and the State of New York ...

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Correction officers retreated from inmate dorms at Riverview Correctional Facility in St. Lawrence County early Thursday ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the head of the state corrections department are trying to use a combination of carrots and sticks to ...

Prison strikes across the state continued Friday as correctional officers take to the picket line demanding better working ...

Hundreds of corrections officers are striking in defiance of state law, claiming in part that the Humane Alternatives to Long ...