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

The growing crisis in New York’s prison system intensified after a convicted rapist attacked a female officer at Mid-State ...

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

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

Day six of the statewide correction officers strike saw massive crowds outside Clinton Correctional Facility supporting the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

State lawmakers got together with the striking corrections officers, echoing calls for the state to find a resolution with ...

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 ...