Walter "King Tut" Johnson was sentenced to five life terms in 1997 by a judge who later released him from prison after 27 ...

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

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has deployed National Guard troops to secure state-run prisons amid a wildcat strike by ...

A wildcat strike by New York prison guards entered its fifth day Friday, before a mediator meets with both sides Monday.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is threatening to deploy National Guard troops to restore order as a strike among prison guards ...

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

A state prisoner died early Saturday at Auburn Correctional Facility in the Finger Lakes region — in the midst of the ...

Corrections officers are protesting — and in some areas, holding unsanctioned strikes — as current and former COs seek to bring attention to what they say are unfair working conditions and restrictive ...

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

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

Across New York, some staff at 25 of the state's 42 prisons have reportedly refused to show up for their shifts. Gov. Kathy ...