State officials plan to release hundreds of incarcerated people in NY, citing staffing shortages tied to the firing of 2,000 prison workers who refused to return to work following the end of a strike.

In the wake of staff shortages caused by the 22-day wildcat prison strike that ended in March, state officials will review the cases of inmates within 15 to 110 days to the end of their sentences ...

Corrections officers at a prison near Utica were charged with murdering an inmate in December. In March, an inmate at another upstate NY prison was allegedly beaten to death by officers.

Federal prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of more than seven years for former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who last year pleaded guilty to more than a dozen federal charges, including wire ...

Prison staff who work overtime will keep earning two and a half times their pay rate for another month. New York State’s Department of Corrections announced the overtime rate extension on Monday ...