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ALBANY — Black and Hispanic people incarcerated in New York state prisons are more likely than white people to face further punishment once they wind ...

ALBANY — New York has amended several state laws to remove the word “inmate” and replace it with “incarcerated person” to refer to people serving pris...

ALBANY (TNS) — Thousands of prison inmates from across the state were for years unfairly punished — including some placed in solitary confinement — af...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio called Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to close six prison facilities across the state in March 2022 “a disastrous leap forward ...

BUFFALO — Fifty years after the revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility, unanswered questions still bother those touched by what remains the nation...

BUFFALO (TNS) — A Buffalo man was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison after federal prosecutors say he escaped from a Florida prison and...

ALBANY (TNS) — The New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association filed a federal lawsuit Friday that seeks to overturn a new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silve r will be returned to federal prison after federal authorities denied him home confin...

More than 200 employees of FCI-McKean have filed suit against the federal government, demanding back pay for overtime and hazardous duty for prison co...

NEW YORK — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been released from a federal prison on furlough while he awaits potential placement to ...

The verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial confirmed what the country already believed: The former Minneapolis police officer had murdered George Floyd. C...

Assemblyman Joseph Giglio and Assembly Minority Conference members have sent an analysis to the Cuomo administration outlining detrimental impacts clo...

Former President Barack Obama promised to close the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay nearly 12 years ago, but the notorious facility that wil...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Board of Health fined a Limestone restaurant $500 for violating COVID-19 state food service regulations — including the...

OLEAN, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus County Board of Health fined a Limestone restaurant $500 for violating COVID-19 state food service regulations — includi...

ALBANY (TNS) — Downstate attorneys and legal experts are suing Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state health commissioner Howard Zucker for their failure to incl...

MARCY (TNS) — Thousands of inmates in New York’s prisons have yet to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, despite outbreaks and federal guidance that urges ...

ALBANY — New York suspended visits to state prisons starting Wednesday because of a rise in coronavirus cases among inmates and staff and in surroundi...