A New York State prison guard is suing the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, claiming she ...

Prison staff in New York will be required to comply with a controversial law following an order from an Albany Supreme Court ...

A New York corrections officer has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) ...

A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and rehabilitative programming, hasn't been enforced equally at every facility ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

A Supreme Court judge in Albany has temporarily restored the HALT Act, the policy that limits solitary confinement which ...

A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and ...

The prison agency has suspended solitary confinement restrictions since a corrections officers strike in February.

A New York judge reinstated restrictions on solitary confinement, challenging the state's correction department's extended ...

A spokesperson for DOCCS confirmed that the agency had released the program bill last year and stood by its recommendations to expand eligibility for merit time programs. “Governor Hochul has been ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is set to begin analyzing state prisons as it considers closing up to three correctional facilities over the ...