Prison staff in New York will be required to comply with a controversial law following an order from an Albany Supreme Court ...

A New York State prison guard is suing the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, claiming she ...

A New York State Supreme Court judge in Albany County has ordered the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

Angela Wells claims racism and retaliation at work. With a hearing set for 2026, she seeks justice after facing threats and ...

A judge granted a preliminary injunction against state prisons employing solitary confinement despite banning it last Wednesday, July 2.

A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and rehabilitative programming, hasn't been enforced equally at every facility ...

A Supreme Court judge in Albany has temporarily restored the HALT Act, the policy that limits solitary confinement which ...

A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

The prison agency has suspended solitary confinement restrictions since a corrections officers strike in February.

A.8871 isn’t a cure-all. But it is a foundation and a commitment to dignity, accountability, and infrastructure that outlasts political tides. It tells New Yorkers: our corrections system must uphold ...