In a direct appeal to Gov. Kathy Hochul, members of the Assembly Minority Conference are calling for the immediate repeal of ...

The deployment of National Guard members to prisons across New York amid a corrections officers' strike is creating staffing ...

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

Some are questioning the timing of these illegal strikes, saying they're really intended to cover up the fallout of the ...

Corrections officers are protesting — and in some areas, holding unsanctioned strikes — as current and former COs seek to bring attention to what they say are unfair working conditions and restrictive ...

Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III issued a memo calling for a temporary pause to parts of the HALT Act—or—Humane ...

The new prison cuts shocked state lawmakers, some of whom are fielding calls from frightened and furious corrections officers and families of prisoners.

It's been 24 hours since Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order deploying the National Guard to the majority of New York ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the head of the state corrections department are trying to use a combination of carrots and sticks to ...

Hundreds of corrections officers are striking in defiance of state law, claiming in part that the Humane Alternatives to Long ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has been appointed to the Council of Governors, a bipartisan group that advises federal officials on ...

An independent mediator is now being brought in to assist in bringing a resolution to resolve the correction officer strike, ...