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

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 ...

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

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

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

The HALT Act remains at the center of the corrections officers strike across New York. Los Angeles removes fire chief in wake ...

Demands for better working conditions are echoing loudly from correction officers at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in ...

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 ...

Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III issued a memo calling for a temporary pause to parts of the HALT Act—or—Humane ...

Two local elected officials have emphasized that ensuring safety at state correctional facilities must be a top priority.

It's been 24 hours since Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order deploying the National Guard to the majority of New York ...