Guards' strike, staff shortages and rising violence plague New York corrections facilities as reform legislation awaits ...

A new video has just been released of John Lennon and Yoko Ono performing at a benefit concert for the families of those ...

Advocates on Tuesday demanded the governor sign a package of bills meant to reform the state’s troubled prisons, a year after ...

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- The woman charged with helping two murderers escape from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York had discussed with them a murder-for-hire plot involving her husband, ...

J. B. Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison ...

New York has hoisted prison salaries by $9,000 or more as it struggles to fill a dire staffing gap that ballooned this year with the firing of 2,000 workers who refused to end a strike. Nearly 11,000 ...

Levi Aron, the man convicted of kidnapping, drugging, smothering and dismembering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky in 2011, has died ...

A former New York state prison guard was found guilty of murder Monday in the death of an inmate beaten while handcuffed, while two other guards were acquitted for their roles in the beating that was ...

A former New York state prison guard was found guilty of murder in the death of an inmate beaten while handcuffed, while two other guards were acquitted for their roles in the beating that was caught ...