ELMIRA, N.Y. (WBNG) -- Protesters joined outside the Elmira Correctional Facility for a sixth day to protest working ...

A 61-year-old inmate was found unresponsive inside his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility and was later pronounced dead ...

Six New York prison workers have been indicted for second-degree murder in the beating death of an inmate who was handcuffed, ...

Correction officers have been on strike since Tuesday, Feb. 18. Following the first inmate death since the strikes began, one ...

Cato, N.Y. — Two New York state prison buses were vandalized last Wednesday in Cayuga County, officials said. One bus was set on fire and another was spray-painted, according to Thomas Mailey, a ...

The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, one of dozens of state prisons where ...

Sunday marks seven days since correction officers began their unsanctioned strikes. These strikes, which are not union ...

Striking New York correction officers will be classified as absent without leave and face serious repercussions, including ...

The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said one of its buses was set on fire and another was vandalized at a Cayuga County shop.

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Walter "King Tut" Johnson was sentenced to five life terms in 1997 by a judge who later released him from prison after 27 years.

An inmate at a New York State prison has died on Saturday according to the NYS Department of Corrections and Community ...