New York is closing another prison as the state continues to struggle to staff its correctional facilities and adjust to a ...
Razor wire lines the recreation yard at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility in South Burlington on Aug. 27, 2024. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger The Essex town planning commission ...
Hochul directed the closure of Bare Hill Correctional Facility, a prison roughly 350 miles north of the city with 1,400 beds, ...
Six months after a strike that cripped New York's prisons for three weeks, state lawmakers have been given a list of suggested changes to a 2021 solitary confinement law that helped fuel the labor ...
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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Three Rochester City Council members will host a hearing on Wednesday on solutions to violence in New York State prisons. The hearing is part of a push for prison reform after the ...
The HALT Solitary Campaign is turning to the United Nations over what it calls international human rights violations happening in New York state prisons. The campaign filed a complaint with both the U ...
After New York State agreed in February 2020 to pay $5 million to the family of an inmate who died in an upstate prison, state officials made a separate $5 million pledge: 1,000 body-worn cameras for ...