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 ...
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 ...
Editor's note: This story was updated at 7:18 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18. One of three state prisons in Malone is set to close next spring. The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...
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 ...
DOCCS Commissioner Daniel Martuscello and the Office of Special Investigations have responded to the scene and the Department's Critical Incident Stress Management team has been deployed. DOCCS ...