In a direct appeal to Gov. Kathy Hochul, members of the Assembly Minority Conference are calling for the immediate repeal of ...

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

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

Local elected officials joined correction officers on the picket lines Saturday at Wende Correctional Facility to show ...

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

In our opinion, Gov. Kathy Hochul took the wrong first step when prison workers went on strike Monday in Collins, Brocton and more than two dozen other state prisons. Because the governor didn’t ...

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

ATTICA, N.Y. — Despite demands from the State of New York that they end their wildcat strike, and some concessions made on ...

Cinematic portrayals of inmates being thrown in a dingy, small, unlit cell with no running water and only a slit in the door for occasional food for years on end, is not the reality in New York state ...

Following an inmate uprising at Riverview Correctional Facility Thursday, Assemblyman Scott Gray, R-Watertown, has called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to suspend the HALT Act for a month in an effort to ...

Some are questioning the timing of these illegal strikes, saying they're really intended to cover up the fallout of the ...

Albay County Sheriff Craig Apple said the Legislature needs to reevaluate the solitary confinement law because it is making prisons more dangerous. The HALT legislation limits the amount of time that ...