Prison reform advocates in Rochester boarded a bus to Albany on Tuesday morning, aiming to push Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a ...

Chilling new details have emerged about the illegal migrants — including killers tied to 29 homicides — who have been ...

More than 30 people with dangerous but treatable ailments — infections, obstructed bowels and asthma attacks — died in the ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. CRIMINAL JUSTICE · September 19, 2025 Several New ...

Four prison guards involved in the death of an incarcerated Black man whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison last year was captured on body camera videos were each sentenced Friday to ...

State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to a different reality. By Bianca Pallaro and Jan Ransom New York State prison ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Governor Kathy Hochul will not sign the Omnibus Prison Reform Package, she announced on Tuesday. It's just one ...

New York prisons and jails reported a total of 25 people suffered sepsis-related deaths while in custody amid mounting questions about the incidents in recent years, USA TODAY Network has learned.

A new report from Solitary Watch details systemic abuse in New York prisons, citing physical violence, deprivation of basic resources, and widespread solitary confinement, and calls for urgent and ...

State officials are set to close another prison in upstate New York, following the approval of the 2026 state budget. The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed Tuesday it ...

ALBANY — When Amy Chin began digging for traces of her family history, the only clue she had was an old ship manifest showing her grandfather’s arrival to the U.S. in 1911 — well into the era of the ...