Striking prison guards cited staffing shortages, mandatory overtime and dangerous working conditions as their reasons for ...

New York fired more than 2,000 prison guards Monday for failing to return to work after a weekslong wildcat strike that crippled the state’s correctional system, but said enough officers had come back ...

More than 1,000 prison guards flooded Albany on Tuesday, chanting a defiant message as pressure mounted on them to stop their wildcat strike: “Hold the line.” The unsanctioned strike entered ...

Nantwi’s cellmate, the only incarcerated witness in the room as guards allegedly killed the 22-year-old, speaks out for the ...

Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter media exposés of their brutalities—like the beating death of ...

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Terminated state correction officers will be eligible for hire in local government positions on or after April 10.

In the past month, around 13,500 New York prison guards went on a wildcat strike. The New York Governor responded by sending National Guard troops to work as prison guards in the states prisons.

After thousands of correctional officers walked off the job in an illegal wildcat strike ... (NYSCOPBA), the union that represents prison guards, sued state officials in an effort to repeal ...

A three-weeklong wildcat strike by thousands of New York state ... and access to their lawyers and loved ones. Striking prison guards cited staffing shortages, mandatory overtime and dangerous ...