After a week of protests outside New York State prisons, Sen. Dan Stec tried to repeal a law from 2022 that placed restrictions on solitary confinement.

As strikes at New York prisons enter their 9th day, efforts in Albany to answer prison worker pleas have been voted down.

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- Several State Republican Lawmakers are calling on Governor Hochul to repeal the Humane Alternatives to ...

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

As corrections officers continue to strike across NYS, we spoke with two former inmates who have differing perspectives on ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul won’t address striking corrections officers’ key gripe: the state’s 2021 HALT Act, which restricts ...

Activists say the Visual Artist Rights Act covers the garden, which the city wants to destroy to make way for affordable ...

Democratic senators representing the Hudson Valley addressed an eight-day strike by corrections officers and called for “an ...

New York State Assembly Republicans are ramping up pressure on Gov. Kathy Hochul to repeal the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, arguing that it has exacerbated violence and ...

But a joint statement issued Sunday by Senators James Skoufis, Pete Harckham, Michelle Hinchey and Rachel May calling for ...