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

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 ...

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

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

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

Five New York prison guards were charged with murder Thursday after they allegedly beat 43-year-old Robert Brooks to death ...

The New York state prison system is teetering on disaster as guards have staged an unsanctioned wildcat strike at almost all ...

Provisions of HALT Act allow for temporary suspension when "circumstances create a significant and unreasonable risk to the safety and security" of inmates and staff.

Correction officers across more than 30 state prisons faced a midnight deadline to return to work or face disciplinary action ...