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 upset in women’s basketball history, shocking the Huskies 66-64 on Morgan ...

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

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.

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 ...

2018 — Pernilla Lindberg makes a 30-foot birdie putt on the eighth extra hole to win the ANA Inspiration for her first ...

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has dropped an executive order that forbade municipalities statewide from hiring the approximately 2,000 ...

Dutchess County is looking to hire some of the former New York state corrections officers who were fired after an ...