The lockdown took place at Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County, with the incident beginning around 1 a.m.

“No prosecutor, jury, legislator or executive branch official imposed a prison sentence. Everyone sentenced to a New York prison was sentenced by a judge of the Unified Court System.” New York ...

"The staffing issue in the Department of Corrections is the number one issue in the state of New York of any agency we have," said NYS Sen. Robert Rolison (R-39th District), while questioning NYDOCCS ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in ...

Luxury hotels in New York City including the Roosevelt, recipients of $59 million from FEMA to house immigrants, were a base ...

Zambito covers energy, transportation and economic growth for the USA Today Network’s New York State team. He recently reported on the beating death of an inmate at a state prison in Utica and ...

Brooks joins a list of state inmates who died after run-ins with New York prison guards in recent years: Samuel Harrell, Karl Taylor, Dante Taylor, Terry Cooper are among them. Their alleged ...

Every month, I comb through Netflix’s slate of new movies and TV shows and in February, I was greeted with a surprise: “Prison Cell 211.” To anybody who has seen the excellent 2009 movie ...

YORK, Pa. (WHTM) — A man will spend life in prison after authorities say he pleaded guilty in the murders of two tenants in a Springettsbury Township rooming house last October. Rangel Vangas ...

New York Fashion Week might be over, but there’s always a reason to party. On Thursday night, in honor of Valentine’s Day, ...