More than a dozen correction officers involved in the fatal beating a 22-year-old from Harlem at a New York state prison ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York is set to lower the minimum hiring age for prison guards from 21 to 18, seeking to boost the ranks of corrections officers during a shortage that was exacerbated by the ...

State prison officials have replaced the superintendent at a Central New York prison where guards fatally beat an inmate earlier this year. Thomas Delmar started May 12 as the new superintendent at ...

ALBANY, NY — New York state prisons will release ... crippled the operations of state’s prison system. The state eventually fired more than 2,000 guards who refused to return to work after ...

Multiple New York prison guards have been indicted in connection with the “disturbing” death of an inmate last month during a wildcat officers’ strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday.

Syracuse, N.Y. — A lawsuit filed on behalf of an inmate who died after corrections officers violently beat him earlier this ...

One detainee was discovered in a cell at the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island. The second, sources said, appears to ...

Former New York Prison Guard Pleads Guilty in Connection With Inmate's Beating Death UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A former upstate New York prison guard pleaded guilty Friday for his role in what ...

The Legislative Correspondents Alumni Association recognized Chris Gelardi with its award for the year’s best state ...

A bus crash sent 13 New York National Guard troops deployed at Bare Hill Correctional Facility to medical centers for evaluation, and resulted in some non-critical injuries. According to a ...

Kelly's lawyers alleged that prison staff instructed him to take an “overdose quantity of medication” on June 12. Read more ...