Correctional officers continued picketing outside of New York State prisons on Thursday despite Governor Hochul and union ...

Following an inmate uprising at Riverview Correctional Facility Thursday, Assemblyman Scott Gray, R-Watertown, has called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to suspend the HALT Act for a month in an effort to ...

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

Corrections officers who have been on strike this week at nearly 30 state-run prisons will go to mediation to resolve their ...

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Men imprisoned at Woodbourne Correctional Facility said they had been denied hot meals and confined to their cells.

DANNEMORA, N.Y. (WCAX) - Friday was day 5 of a protest and strike by New York corrections officers in the North Country. The deadline has passed for prison workers to avoid repercussions and it seems ...

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

An independent mediator is now being brought in to assist in bringing a resolution to resolve the correction officer strike, which has now extended to a fifth day. Thousands ...

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

The strike, now involving at least 30 prisons across the state, is rooted in anger over limits on solitary confinement, ...

Corrections officers are protesting — and in some areas, holding unsanctioned strikes — as current and former COs seek to bring attention to what they say are unfair working conditions and restrictive ...