The deaths were the first in 2025 to be connected to the Rikers Island jail complex, which may be taken over by a ...

Six New York prison workers have been indicted on charges of second-degree murder in the beating death of an incarcerated man ...

The New York City Department of Correction honored a legendary senior program specialist who worked for more than 57 years at ...

The department last went to 12-hour tours during the 2021 and 2022 staffing crisis when hundreds of officers went sick following the COVID pandemic.

Still facing a stubborn staffing crunch, the New York City Department of Correction will require officers to work mandatory 12-hour tours in a number of city jails, a move immediately criticized ...

The director of research for the Empire Center, Ken Girardin, calls the situation ‘extremely dangerous’ for prison system ...

Ten former New York corrections employees have been indicted in the death of Robert Brooks, according to an indictment ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has alerted the state's National Guardsmen to get ready to staff correction facilities if an ...

The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, one of dozens of state prisons where ...

Corrections officers at DOCCS facilities across New York state are on strike. The National Guard has been activated and ...

A Rikers Island jail complex inmate died while in custody on Wednesday morning, marking the first detainee death so far in ...