For seven minutes — seven gut-churning, nauseating, disgusting minutes — he stood in that room close enough to touch him, and ...

The conditions in New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services’ secure youth prisons are deeply troubling.

An upstate New York man already serving time for fatally strangling a 32‑year‑old mother of two has been sentenced to ...

State Sen. Julia Salazar released a report Monday that asserts conditions in New York's prisons remain dire, with inmates ...

The state plans to install cameras in “blind spots,” following two high-profile prisoner deaths and extensive reporting about ...

A prosecutor has told a jury that a prison guard should be convicted of manslaughter for failing to intervene in the brutal ...

Jury selection is underway for the final trial related to the beating death of New York inmate Robert Brooks at the hands of ...

Governor Kathy Hochul is proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the redevelopment of three closed state prisons in the ...

A constitutional amendment could free up three closed prison complexes on forest preserve lands in the Adirondacks.

While technology continues to grow in the outside world, the Correctional Association of New York says state prisons are far ...