The state prison system won’t consider rehiring two former officers, despite them being acquitted on criminal charges related ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The Legal Aid Society claims that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ignored a court order on solitary confinement. This followed an ...

A high-powered law firm hired by the Hochul administration to conduct a comprehensive review of the state’s troubled prison ...

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — A new report by the Office of the New York State Comptoller found state employees worked nearly 24.5 million hours in overtime last year. The top agency was the Department of ...

Despite not guilty verdicts for both Nicholas Kieffer and Matthew Galliher, the New York State Department of Corrections said ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — As the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) highlights its ongoing recruitment and retention efforts following a statewide prison strike, ...

The New York State DOCCS has limited family visits for incarcerated people, causing stress and disruption to their lives and ...

Albany, NY (WRGB) — New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli has released an audit evaluating the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's (DOCCS) management of tablet and kiosk ...

Tiffanie Irwin was sentenced alongside her brother Joseph to 12 years in state prison after pleading to first-degree manslaughter and second-degree assault, both felonies. Tiffanie Irwin allegedly led ...

MALONE, New York (WPTZ) — The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has confirmed that 11 staff members are being treated after becoming ill at Upstate Correctional Facility on Friday.

There are no legal barriers to the former guards asking for their old jobs back, but the state says they will not be rehired.

The original inhabitants of the Capital Region have returned this weekend to dance on their homelands for the first time since they were forcibly removed. The band of Mohicans celebrated their ...