The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced on its website that the facilities are open for ...

For the second time in three years, the Cayuga County Legislature has passed a resolution urging the state to repeal HALT, a solitary confinement reform law.

An inmate at Auburn Correctional Facility was found dead in his cell Saturday morning, marking another crisis point in New York’s embattled prison system. Officials ...

The Auburn City Council approved a trio of resolutions Thursday evening, including the sale of a city-owned lot, updates to ...

More than two dozen prison guards, nurses and inmates ended up in the hospital after mysterious substances were found inside the walls of three New York state prisons. The incidents started six days ...

Several people have been hospitalized including nurses, correction officers and inmates at Attica and Wyoming Correctional Facilities following several chemical exposure incidents.

Hundreds of current and former corrections officers from across New York State are set to rally at the State Capitol this ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has dropped an executive order that forbade municipalities statewide from hiring the approximately 2,000 ...

Oneida and Chemung counties filed lawsuits to try overturn Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive order so they could hire the guards.

Fired correction officers rally at the NYS capitol calling for accountability and real solutions to address rising violence and drugs in state prisons.

Gov. Kathy Hochul seems to have opened the door to permitting the roughly 2,000 state prison correctional officers who were fired last week to work for other law ...

An executive order in New York now prohibits state agencies from rehiring correction officers who were fired for not ...