Attacks on law-abiding correctional officers by inmates are becoming all-too-routine news items across this region and New York state in recent months. This week’s lockdown at Collins is one more ...

Canandaigua, N.Y. — Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man who was reported missing in February, was tortured ...

A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina is again asking for his execution be ...

Michael Howell pleaded guilty to felony assault for his bottle-breaking rampage on Oct. 5, 2023, that left three people ...

Collins Correctional Facility remains on lockdown for the third day in a row, but there’s another thing on many NYS Dept. of ...

Many New York State Department of Corrections workers are worried about potential staffing cuts at every state prison.

At least nine prison employees will be charged next week in sealed indictments issued by a grand jury in the death of inmate Robert Brooks, according to a source familiar with the case. The ...

A Brooklyn man already in prison for murdering an ex-girlfriend has been charged in the 2012 killing of transgender performer ...

The lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z over the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl in 2000 has been dismissed by ...

The New York State Department of Transportation has contracted with an engineering firm to perform an independent study of ...

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

At a joint legislative budget hearing on Thursday, Robert Ricks—the grieving father of a man murdered by corrections staff while in state custody—urged lawmakers to reform New York’s ...