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 ...
State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to ...
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 ...
The closure in the North Country is due to the state's persistent staffing shortages in state prisons. Thousands of correction officers were fired by the state earlier this year after carrying out a ...