J. B. Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison ...
The state plans to install cameras in “blind spots,” following two high-profile prisoner deaths and extensive reporting about ...
ALBANY, N.Y. — As part of her budget passed by the state legislature in the spring of this year NY Gov. Kathy Hochul called for the closure of up to three of the state's 42 prisons. The first shoe in ...
A rare instance of a prison guard found guilty of murder was welcomed by advocates of reform, but many were disappointed by the acquittal of two others. By Ed Shanahan Good morning. It’s Tuesday.
Prison guards have been accused of more than 120 acts of brutality that amounted to torture in the past decade in New York, a Times investigation found. By Benjamin Oreskes and Jan Ransom A year after ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Two court rulings were handed down this week about restrictions on solitary confinement in correctional facilities in New York. One lifted emergency orders from New York City ...
New York State's Bedford Hills Correctional facility, Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center and Albion Correctional Facility in New York State are the three U.S. prisons with the highest reported ...