Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities in a central hallway.

The trial of the man charged with attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie at a New York lecture began on Tuesday ...

The 9/11 case is at a crossroads in the long running challenge over whether a key confession is tainted by C.I.A. torture ...

Michael Olson, 56, drugged and raped a teenage girl for months and targeted several other minors for depraved abuse, ...

The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 ...

After footage of the killing of Robert Brooks sparked national outcry, Governor Kathy Hochul promised to fully equip New York prisons with cameras. The project has stalled for years.

The Secretary of State called the proposal, which is undoubtedly illegal, an "act of extraordinary friendship." ...

Mufid Fawaz Alkhader was arrested after he fired a shotgun twice on the front steps of Temple Israel in Albany back in December 2023.

The lockdown at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone officially ended on Tuesday, according to a post from the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

A former Albany County man convicted of assault in 2021 was found dead in a Greene County prison last week. Zechariah Squires ...

A twisted Manhattan financier who preyed on teenage girls fantasized about how he could get away with the sick abuse even ...