Prison populations and staffing levels have dropped by 50% in recent decades. Now, Gov. Hochul wants the authority to shutter ...

2017 — UConn’s record 111-game winning streak comes to a startling end when Mississippi State pulls off perhaps the biggest ...

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

The Legal Aid Society released a report Friday, detailing the ongoing and immense damage inflicted upon incarcerated New ...

National Grid and union leaders representing nearly 1,200 natural gas and power-plant workers on Long Island reached a ...

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

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The future of another local state prison may be in some doubt, based on comments from Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz.

The Legal Aid Society released a report on the effects of the 22-day strike by correction officers at prison facilities run ...

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

Last year, the Legal Aid Society, Disability Rights Advocates, and Winston & Strawn LLP filed a class action lawsuit against ...