Just 151 people have left state incarceration out of hundreds potentially eligible as state grapples with a shortage of correction officers. Housing restrictions are a big reason why.

County jails and sheriffs are feeling the burden as they hold on to more sentenced inmates because of CO staffing shortage in state prisons.

Understaffing and overcrowding in prisons are causing unsafe conditions, low retention rates, and a higher suicide rate among ...

During the three-week strike, state prison officials moved ... James Miller, a spokesperson for the New York Correction Officers and Police Benevolent Association, said the union has been paying ...

A former corrections officer said there were dangerous working conditions, horrible policies, and retaliation against staff ...

The lawsuit reveals that DOCCS is considering pausing solitary confinement law on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and any other ...

The New York State Department of Corrections is facing a staffing crisis after more than 2,000 guards were fired following an ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she envisions 18-year-old recruits working in supervised activities – without access to a gun – to get ...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified Monday at a defamation trial that an editorial about gun control in The New York ...

Governor Kathy Hochul suspects a cultural problem within the New York State prison system allowed for the beating deaths of ...

Attacking the Fed: Mr. Trump renewed his attacks on the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome H. Powell, calling him “a ...