The state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision needs to strengthen its program for housing recently released individuals to increase the likelihood that they reenter society ...

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 ...

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. (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. (NEWS10)—After the Wildcat strike ended in March, the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has been focusing on rebuilding staffing levels at state prisons.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Daniel Martuscello, the Commissioner of New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), held a press conference on Monday on the correction officer ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County Sheriff John Garcia warned legislators Monday that taxpayers would be on the hook for rising costs associated with a backlog of about 150 inmates who should be in ...

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 ...

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 ...