Correctional facilities are not meant to be pleasant, but ours have become perilous for correction officers and even more ...

The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, one of dozens of state prisons where ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs is being held at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center as he awaits trial, with a photo showing what ...

The federal Bureau of Prisons is banning the use of preferred pronouns, stopping special pat-down procedures and rejecting ...

In our opinion, Gov. Kathy Hochul took the wrong first step when prison workers went on strike Monday in Collins, Brocton and more than two dozen other state prisons. Because the governor didn’t ...

Formal mediation aimed at ending the illegal strike start on Monday. The National Guard remains on duty securing several stat ...

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An inmate at a New York State prison has died on Saturday according to the NYS Department of Corrections and Community ...

An octogenarian death row inmate scheduled to be Louisiana's first person put to death in 15 years next month has died, ...

Striking New York correction officers will be classified as absent without leave and face serious repercussions, including ...

Walter "King Tut" Johnson was sentenced to five life terms in 1997 by a judge who later released him from prison after 27 years.

Cato, N.Y. — Two New York state prison buses were vandalized last Wednesday in Cayuga County, officials said. One bus was set on fire and another was spray-painted, according to Thomas Mailey, a ...