New York’s prison strike a year later

On Feb. 17, 2025, correction officers across New York started a 22-day strike that led to the firing of more than 2,000 striking officers and the deployment of the National Guard to state ...

Will Threat of Prison Make One of New York’s ‘Worst Landlords’ Change?

Tenants said one of the city’s most notorious landlords let rats run free and left them cold during the winter. Now, charged ...

New York fires 2K prison officers who refused to return to work after strike

The strike that paralyzed New York prisons for three weeks ended with most workers returning to their jobs and the state firing 2,000 who stayed out.

NY prison watchdog faces complete funding cut: ‘You can’t just do oversight for 6 months and then walk away’

After promising reform following an inmate's death, the governor has proposed cutting support for the Correctional Association of NY.
The Marshall Project

It’s Hard to Stay Motivated When You’re Facing ‘Death by Incarceration’

In late July 2025, I received a new memo on my electronic tablet from Daniel F. Martuscello III, the commissioner of New York’s corrections department. Since he’d started the job two years prior, he’d ...
Adirondack Daily Enterprise

State prison officials said an employee accused of sexual assault didn’t exist. New York Focus found him

Beverly Footman wants to forget the three prison staffers who she says abused her while she was incarcerated — but they haunt her. One was a cook at Groveland Correctional Facility, where she was ...