One of the first places Gordon Cordeiro visited when a judge ordered him released after spending 30 years in prison for a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is requesting authority to close up to five state prisons within a year while strengthening oversight of correctional facilities. Her proposal, part of the state budget amendments, ...

The deployment of National Guard members to prisons amid a corrections officers' strike is creating staffing challenges for local law enforcement agencies.

Local elected officials joined correction officers on the picket lines Saturday at Wende Correctional Facility to show ...

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

The Los Angeles district attorney said Friday he opposes a new trial for Lyle and Erik Menendez in the 1989 killing of their parents but hasn’t made ...

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

Amid a correction officer strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul has amended her 2025-26 state budget proposal to include the closure of up to five prisons.

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 ...

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

Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed a series of initiatives to reform prisons as part of her budget. It includes requiring body ...

The proposals came as Hochul continued to face widespread strikes from correction officers across the state Friday.