Sen. Dan Stec (R-Queensbury) and Assemblyman Michael Cashman (D-115) called for DOCCS to explain its safety protocols on ...

Guards demanded body scanners to cut down on contraband. Now they’re turning visitors away over their hygiene and medical ...

State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to ...

The state government has earmarked up to $9.3 million for the Big Law firm's review of New York's beleaguered prison system.

A new report from the department overseeing the New York State prison system shows that as staffing has slumped over the past two decades, prison violence has been on the rise.

Three thousand New York military personnel remain in prisons statewide, assisting corrections officers and other employees as the state continues to recruit staff.

More than 30 people with dangerous but treatable ailments — infections, obstructed bowels and asthma attacks — died in the ...

Joshua Bartlett, 49, of Utica was arrested Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, and charged with multiple sex offenses. Bartlett already ...

New York state prisons routinely serve meals that fall short of federal nutrition guidance, rely heavily on refined grains and sodium, and leave incarcerated people to fill gaps through commissaries ...

J. B. Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison ...

It’s been roughly nine months since correction officers held a wildcat strike in New York State. National Guard members who ...

Levi Aron, serving 40 years to life for the 2011 murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, has died in state custody, New York ...