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

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

A coach bus owned by a vendor of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision was set on fire earlier this week in ...

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

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

The proposals came as Hochul continued to face widespread strikes from correction officers across the state Friday.

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

State assemblyman Scott Gray calls a move by Governor Kathy Hochul which could close as many as five state prisons starting ...

State Senator Mark Walczyk and Assemblyman Scott Gray are on site at Riverview Correctional Facility as protests for safer ...