ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision extended its overtime rate of 2.5 times regular pay until May 9. The extension comes as DOCCS works to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 9—Despite Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul's pledge not to rehire any of the 2,000 corrections officers her administration fired in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — In the wake of an unauthorized strike by correction officers earlier this year, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and several unions ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — The Legal Aid Society claims that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ignored a court order on solitary confinement. This followed an ...

Note: This story has been updated to reflect the fact that the Department of Correction and Community Supervision is accepting inmates again. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies ...

The New York state prison system is abusing “emergency” authority to gut solitary confinement reforms indefinitely, a new class action lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit, filed by the Legal Aid Society on ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Erie County Sheriff’s Office announced it has been informed that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) will resume intake of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) announced it will consolidate part of the Collins Correctional Facility campus and close Bare Hill ...

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision’s Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act Committee released recommendations to amend the law to make it easier to make ...

ALBANY — 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 ...