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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision needs to strengthen its program for housing recently released ...

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) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK STATE — Three New York State prisons have suspended visitation after staff and inmates got sick after being exposed to an unknown substance, the state’s Department of Corrections and ...

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. — The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision's suspension of taking in transfers is causing issues for the Erie County Sheriff's Office. Erie County Sheriff ...