As the New York State prison system takes steps towards prison reform, a new report has prompted response from the father of ...

The New York Unified Court System has formally adopted a new regulation, effective January 1, 2028, mandating that judges ...

NY prison review finds prevalence of contraband and gang activity that exacerbates safety problems, which undermine the goal ...

New York’s state prisons have a long list of issues that are making them less safe for everybody inside, as detailed in the ...

A decade ago, corrections officers in New York state prisons used pepper spray 124 times over the course of a year. But by 2024, the year Robert Brooks was murdered by guards while incarcerated at a ...

Antoine Galloway still remembers the moment he was surrounded by seven corrections officers upset over a sexual assault ...

An independent review of New York State's prison system is calling for more accountability for staff members to prevent the ...

In the wake of the beatings, the New York State Department of Corrections hired the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale ...

In December 2024, the New York state prison system made national news when guards were caught on video beating an incarcerated man to death. Soon after the footage’s release, Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

Utica, N.Y. — A jury found a former New York state corrections officer guilty of five of six charges in the beating death of an inmate last year in a state prison in Oneida County. The 12 jurors found ...