A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

The state has paid $3.5 million to North Country businesses so far during National Guard assignment to area prisons.

A judge has issued an injunction blocking New York’s corrections department from suspending parts of the HALT Act, a law ...

Utica, N.Y. — A third New York state corrections officer has pleaded guilty in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate ...

Andrew Hunter, 23, of Mount Pleasant, pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer and was sentenced to 18 additional ...

AFSCME District Council 33 represents a wide swath of city employees who perform manual labor and skilled trades.

A New York State Supreme Court judge in Albany County has ordered the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and rehabilitative programming, hasn't been enforced equally at every facility ...

On Tuesday afternoon, Common Pleas Court Judge Sierra Thomas-Street issued an order granting the city the injunction ...

A Mount Pleasant man and Texarkana inmate pleaded guilty Wednesday to seriously injuring a corrections officer.