Beating deaths and murder charges are incredibly rare in New York prisons, but alleged physical abuse of inmates by ...

State Police have arrested 45-year-old Brian Brown of Dannemora, New York, on charges of criminal possession of a weapon in ...

The incident is similar to a series of chemical exposures at state prisons in the North Country earlier this year.

Is the state’s early release of non-violent inmates going to immediately create a public safety issue throughout the state? Of course not. But state officials are deluding themselves if they think ...

County jails and sheriffs are feeling the burden as they hold on to more sentenced inmates because of CO staffing shortage in state prisons.

In dozens of cases, medical personnel in New York prisons were accused of covering up beatings — some under pressure — and ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a convicted murderer from Mexico earlier this month following his ...

A woman is behind bars after sending several drug-soaked pieces of mail to New York State prison inmates, police said.The ...

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal ...

Police said the man had recently been released from the Clinton Correctional Facility and allegedly broke into a building to ...

HALT Act was a common-sense measure to end prolonged solitary confinement –– which the U.N. has described as torture.

As part of the ongoing investigation into the in-custody death of a Barneveld man on March 25, New York Attorney General ...