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 ...

New York's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision says those continuing to strike are violating the state’s Taylor’s Law and are considered absent without leave, and will be docked pay ...

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

After nearly a week of prison strikes across the state of New York, including in the North Country, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) tells NBC5 that for every day ...

The deployment of National Guard members to prisons amid a corrections officers' strike is creating staffing challenges for local law enforcement agencies.

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 ...

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

On Friday morning, a woman incarcerated at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County tried to get help. The ...

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