Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) is calling for new drone laws after ...

The New York State Inspector General's annual Workers Compensation Fraud Report was released this week, with 22 arrests, and ...

Two correction officers who were hospitalized after being exposed to an unknown substance at Mohawk Correctional Facility have been treated and released.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Advocacy groups published a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul and state legislators on Friday alleging ongoing staff violence within the Department of Corrections and Community ...

ALBANY — When the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision fired 2,000 correction officers to end a three-week-long strike in 2025, it exacerbated a staffing crisis. At a state budget ...

MALONE — Driven by vaccine distributions and a decline in COVID-19 positivity rates, state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision officials said prison visitations will resume, beginning ...

State lawmakers want to create a new state entity to perform independent autopsies of incarcerated people and reduce unexplained deaths in New York prisons and jails. Assembly Member Erik Dilan, chair ...

ROME, N.Y. — Five staff at a state prison in Oneida County became sick when an unknown substance was snuck into the prison over the weekend, according to the Department of Corrections and Community ...

New York investigators uncovered more than $1.9 million in workers’ compensation fraud last year, with arrests rising sharply ...

The death of an incarcerated person at a state prison in northern New York is under investigation. According to the state's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), Michael ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) is calling for new drone laws after officers discovered a package containing drugs, weapons and other items ...