Walter "King Tut" Johnson was sentenced to five life terms in 1997 by a judge who later released him from prison after 27 ...

The New York state prison system is teetering on disaster as guards have staged an unsanctioned wildcat strike at almost all ...

Prosecutors investigating the death of a handcuffed man who was punched and roughed up by guards in an upstate New York ...

A wildcat strike by New York correction officers entered in its fifth day Friday, after Gov. Kathy Hochul deployed National ...

Dozens of correctional facilities canceled prison visits one day after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order ...

Five prison guards have been charged with murder in the death of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old inmate who was beaten at an ...

A state prisoner died early Saturday at Auburn Correctional Facility in the Finger Lakes region — in the midst of the ...

Corrections officers at DOCCS facilities across New York state are on strike. The National Guard has been activated and ...

The state has temporarily suspended parts of the HALT Act, a law limiting how long an inmate can be placed in solitary ...