After nearly a week of prison strikes and protests across the state of New York, including in the North Country, the ...
The New York City Department of Correction honored a legendary senior program specialist who worked for more than 57 years at ...
The department last went to 12-hour tours during the 2021 and 2022 staffing crisis when hundreds of officers went sick following the COVID pandemic.
A Rikers Island correction officer suffered bleeding on the brain and underwent emergency surgery after she was struck in the ...
Corrections officers in New York say their working conditions are dangerous and they are forced into overtime. They have ...
The Department of Correction took heat from an oversight board for quietly creating a new Rikers high-security unit that may ...
Ten New York prison guards have been indicted in connection to the killing of inmate Robert Brooks — whose brutal, fatal beating was caught on a stomach-churning body-worn camera video.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has alerted the state's National Guardsmen to get ready to staff correction facilities if an ...
Provisions of HALT Act allow for temporary suspension when "circumstances create a significant and unreasonable risk to the safety and security" of inmates and staff.