Striking prison workers may face contempt charges, arrest, and possible jail time for continuing to strike. Many are now back ...

Nearly a dozen staff members are on administrative leave and state officials are investigating after an inmate at a New York ...

New York State is ending health insurance coverage for thousands of corrections officers who walked off the job and onto the picket line two weeks ago. State officials have also fired a handful of ...

A coalition of exonerated New Yorkers, civil rights advocates, and public defender groups called on state lawmakers Monday to reject a “shameful” effort by Gov. Hochul and the city’s district ...

Yankees right-hander Luis Gil will start the season on the injured list because of a high-grade lat strain in his pitching ...

A wildcat strike by New York state prison guards stretched into a third week Monday, prompting officials to start firing ...

Prison guards at 32 facilities across the state are still out on wildcat strikes despite the threat of job loss and ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul's primary response to the strikes has been to send 5,300 New York National Guard troops —some of whom are ...

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Northern New York prison protests continue despite risk of terminations, loss of insurance DOGE cost-cutter-in-chief Elon ...

Grei Mendez had pleaded guilty to drug charges including conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death.

State officials have put 11 prison workers on leave after a 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility died following an unexplained encounter over the weekend.