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 ...

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday announced plans to stage a sit-in and peaceful protest outside Adiala ...

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 ...

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

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

One civil rights complaint alleged that staff in a Buffalo facility retaliated against hunger-striking detainees through ...

A suspected drugs boss known as "The Fly" has been recaptured nine months after escaping during an ambush that killed two ...

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 ...

The fire of protesters’ resolve burned another day, despite the Governor’s orders for them to return to work by the heat of ...

Efforts to resolve the ongoing strike by New York state correction officers will begin next week with mediation led by Martin Scheinman, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul. Scheinman has already held ...

Correction officers remained out on the picket lines in Coxsackie on Friday. It marked the third day of correction officers ...