A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates took over and injured three guards, just days after staffing ...

New York prison locked down as inmates overtake dorms. Officers have been pulled from those areas and emergency response ...

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

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

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 ...

Leaders of the union representing thousands of N.Y. correction officers issued a vote of "no confidence" this week for ...

The death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility has prompted legislative efforts to reform New York’s prison ...

State corrections officials told the Albany Times-Union that staff at Collins Correctional Facility, south of Buffalo, found ...

The autopsy reported that Brooks died from “compression of the neck and multiple blunt-impact injuries,” a family lawyer said ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said authorities should now move quickly and pursue criminal charges against those responsible for ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has called for swift criminal charges against those responsible for the "horrific, shocking" ...