Over 100 Syrian detainees are urging to be sent back to their country as per an agreement between Beirut and Damascus, ...

ALBANY – The head of the state prison system on Thursday linked Wednesday’s inmate uprising and lockdown at Collins Correctional Facility to critical understaffing of lockups across the state.

A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates attacked and injured three guards days after concerns of staffing shortages were reported. The New York State Department of Corrections ...

An upstate prison was still locked down Thursday after guards retook control of three dorms following an inmate uprising sparked when a corrections officer seized one prisoner’s illegal cellphones.

A former Auburn Correctional Facility inmate admitted Friday to attacking two corrections officers more than a year ago. Yakez Cornett, of Ithaca, who attacked two officers at the facility in ...

Five inmates were injured Monday after multiple inmates were observed fighting at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Terre Haute, according to the ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday ordered the New York National Guard to be prepared to secure state prisons if correction ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — At least nine prison employees will be charged next week in sealed indictments issued by a grand jury in the death of inmate Robert Brooks, according to a source familiar with ...

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent ...

SINGAPORE - Inmates are brewing up a storm learning to be baristas or training for a career in hospitality as part of efforts to equip themselves with skills for life after prison. One inmate ...

A state prison was locked down after uprising inmates injured three guards and took control of three dorms — days after the state’s Department of Corrections head complained about staffing ...