As unknown chemical exposures to staff in correctional facilities across the state continue to rise, the candidates in the 115th Assembly District special election say they will make it a priority to ...

A policy requiring correction officers to intervene if another employee is using excessive force will be part of the criminal trial of three officers facing murder charges.

An Oneida County jury began hearing testimony Tuesday at trial of three former correction officers implicated in beating ...

The new prison in Chesterfield, which is to rise on a multi-building campus, is expected to be completed by 2028 in ...

The Chesterfield facility will replace a prison plagued by abuse and controversy, even as legal battles over past misconduct ...

A New Jersey judge has dropped charges against 14 correctional officers accused in a 2021 inmate beating case, citing delays ...

Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum-security Texas prison after cooperating with ...

The population in America’s big jails and state prisons plunged by 170,000 this spring amid the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters has found in a survey of facilities around the country. All told, ...

Shakur, U.S. citizen and fugitive born Joanne Deborah Byron, died Thursday from "health problems and advanced age," the Cuban ...

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison ...

When President Bola Tinubu announced clemency and pardons for 175 individuals – including posthumous gestures to figures like ...

The two candidates for the 115th Assembly District seat — Republican Brent Davison and Democrat Michael Cashman — met on the ...