The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) has announced significant changes to improve ...

As the New York State prison system takes steps towards prison reform, a new report has prompted response from the father of ...

The June report from the law firm Wilmer Hale paints a picture of a system where staff and inmates feel unsafe and ...

The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has released two reports detailing failures in state ...

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is set to begin analyzing state prisons as it considers closing up to three correctional facilities over the next ...

The New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision says correctional facilities across the state are seeing measurable safety improvements following a third-party review.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Department of Corrections and Community Supervision says correctional facilities across the state are seeing ...