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 ...

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

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

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 rehabilitative programming, hasn't been enforced equally at every facility ...

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.

As part of this year’s budget negotiations, Hochul has proposed a more modest expansion of merit time eligibility. While the DOCCS proposal would only exclude people convicted of Class A felonies or ...