New York’s total bill to post the National Guard in prisons — a response to last year’s corrections officers strike — is set ...

Manhattan’s former top prosecutor Preet Bharara, known for his anti-corruption crusades and probe into failures at the Rikers ...

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated man as the new Commissioner of the city’s Department of Correction. 64-year-old Stanley Richards will be the first person who ...

The conditions at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility are akin to solitary confinement, local experts say — an apparent violation of state law.

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law has released a report detailing how federal funding cuts are undermining the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act, which has led to increased risks for ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to ...

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 ...

A former Rockland County nursing home mogul was paroled from an Arkansas prison after 22 days following an earlier prison ...