The attorney for a woman who testified she had sex with the former congressman as a minor wants the public to understand how ...

Duran spent three years at Rikers and another nine in different maximum-security prisons upstate for manslaughter. He described spending 23 hours a day in solitary confinement as “torture.” He said he ...

A proposal in New York seeks to require judges to make yearly visits to state prisons, aiming to connect them directly with ...

Now is the time for Gov. Hochul to close Marcy Correctional Facility, a state prison so beset by tragedy and dysfunction that keeping it open would cause more harm than good.

This story has been updated. A day after a corrections union demanded an apology from New York State Senator Julia Salazar ...

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A Brazilian national living in Connecticut was sentenced to federal prison for helping to obtain over 1,000 fraudulent driver ...

A major data update from a prison watchdog group is pulling back the curtain on how New York runs its state prisons — and where it’s falling short. The Correctional Association of New York just ...

High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of ...

Supporters of incarcerated former Republican Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters are pushing to get her transferred from a state ...

President Trump has tightened the U.S. grip on the Americas by rewarding allies and punishing rivals. That has upended the ...