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

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

A French convict was arrested in Romania months after he had been freed in a brazen daytime ambush that killed two prison ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Nicholas Kristof is right to call for more treatment and prevention. However, by suggesting that drug decriminalization was ...