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 ...

Six New York prison workers have been indicted for second-degree murder in the beating death of an inmate who was handcuffed, ...

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Cato, N.Y. — Two New York state prison buses were vandalized last Wednesday in Cayuga County, officials said. One bus was set on fire and another was spray-painted, according to Thomas Mailey, a ...

The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, one of dozens of state prisons where ...

Formal mediation aimed at ending the illegal strike start on Monday. The National Guard remains on duty securing several stat ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is banning the use of preferred pronouns, stopping special pat-down procedures and rejecting ...

Correctional facilities are not meant to be pleasant, but ours have become perilous for correction officers and even more ...

Suse Lowenstein’s son was killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. An artist, she responded ...

An inmate at a New York State prison has died on Saturday according to the NYS Department of Corrections and Community ...

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