The state has temporarily suspended parts of the HALT Act, a law limiting how long an inmate can be placed in solitary ...

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

The growing crisis in New York’s prison system intensified after a convicted rapist attacked a female officer at Mid-State ...

New York State prisons saw strikes, prison unrest and correctional officer charges in the beating death of an inmate.

Correctional officers complain of unsafe conditions, but critics say the protests were meant to deflect attention from ‘a ...

We feel for the corrections officers who say they’re struggling with impossible conditions in prisons across the state, but ...

After nearly a week of prison strikes across the state of New York, including in the North Country, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) tells NBC5 that for every day ...

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

A wildcat strike by New York prison guards entered its fifth day Friday, before a mediator meets with both sides Monday.

State prison officials on Saturday warned that officers striking outside 38 correctional facilities will be docked pay, lose ...

The prison strike has entered day number five at the Elmira Correctional Facility and other prisons across New York State.

New York's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision says those continuing to strike are violating the state’s Taylor’s Law and are considered absent without leave, and will be docked pay ...