Gov. Kathy Hochul agreed to temporarily suspend a rule limiting the use of solitary confinement to 15-days and to pay ...

With abuse rampant in state prisons, why won’t the governor release grant clemency to people who are clearly rehabilitated?

A Brooklyn man who had served 40 years in prison for a home invasion robbery that left three dead in the 1980s died at at ...

He twice won Oscars for bringing humanizing depth to corrupt lawmen, from the raging cop in “The French Connection” to the ...

Gene Hackman, the unpretentious actor whose performances in such films as "The French Connection," "Hoosiers," "Unforgiven" ...

Members of the New York State Assembly recently gathered to express displeasure with the working conditions that have led to ongoing strikes with corrections officers statewide. They include ...

This week on the Disabilities Beat, WBFO’s Emyle Watkins spoke with Ify Chikezie, a staff attorney at the NYCLU about what a ...

New York state troopers are serving court notices ordering corrections officers to end their unauthorized strike as the state ...

The Dallas Mavericks trading Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis has been unanimously scorned to the ...

The NAACP board said they are “profoundly disturbed” over the governor’s decision to suspend elements of the HALT solitary ...

The name of the sixth prison guard indicted for murder in the beating death of a handcuffed inmate at the Marcy Correctional ...

A sixth correction officer was arraigned Monday on a second-degree murder charge in connection to the death of inmate Robert ...