Gov. Kathy Hochul once dubbed Hazel Dukes, the venerable leader of State’s NAACP chapter, “my mom on Earth.” But Dukes and ...

As Republican state senators push legislation to repeal a law that limits the use of solitary confinement amid a wildcat ...

New York state troopers are serving court notices ordering corrections officers to end their unauthorized strike as the state ...

An inmate died in a New York prison as guards at prisons across the state continue their strike, which union officials ...

A group of Democratic state senators who represent prisons, including Auburn and Cayuga correctional facilities, are calling for safer workplaces for striking correction officers.

A 61-year-old inmate died over the weekend at one of the New York prisons where National Guard troops were deployed to replace corrections officers who walked off the job in an illegal strike.

Nine other guards were charged last week in the beating death of the inmate. The top charge was second-degree murder.

Corrections officers object to even limited constraints on their ability to impose a regime of terror on inmates.

Democratic senators representing the Hudson Valley addressed an eight-day strike by corrections officers and called for “an ...

The state prison system on Monday evening announced it was moving inmates out of medium-security Collins Correctional ...

Hochul's statement was released roughly an hour before the officers appeared in Oneida County Court on Thursday afternoon. “Robert Brooks should be alive today,” Hochul said i ...