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 ...

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

As the state threatens disciplinary action for corrections officers across the state who have been on an unsanctioned work stoppage this week — demanding safer working conditions and less-grueling ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling up the National Guard in response to prison strikes that have prompted lockdowns and public safety concerns inside the facilities. Hochul said she has directed ...

In a move to help solve the statewide walkout of correction officers, the state offered some measures Thursday. Gov. Kathy ...

Regulations that restrict use of solitary confinement are being temporarily suspended in the wake of prison strikes and ...