PLATTSBURGH — Union leaders are calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to declare the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is in a “full-scale systemic emergency.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) is calling for new drone laws after ...

Two correction officers who were hospitalized after being exposed to an unknown substance at Mohawk Correctional Facility ...

Multiple law enforcement agencies are looking into the death of an incarcerated individual at Upstate Correctional Facility.

As part of her budget passed by the state legislature in the spring of this year NY Gov. Kathy Hochul called for the closure of up to three of the state's 42 prisons. The first shoe in that plan ...

DOCCS investigates 3 incarcerated individuals' deaths as experts say this could be a trend ...

DOCCS is investigating the death "to determine if another incarcerated individual at the facility should face criminal charges in connection with the death." ...

ALBANY — When the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision fired 2,000 correction officers to end a three-week-long strike in 2025, it exacerbated a staffing crisis. At a state budget ...

MALONE — Driven by vaccine distributions and a decline in COVID-19 positivity rates, state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision officials said prison visitations will resume, beginning ...

State lawmakers want to create a new state entity to perform independent autopsies of incarcerated people and reduce unexplained deaths in New York prisons and jails. Assembly Member Erik Dilan, chair ...

The state officially shut down one of three state prisons in Malone on Wednesday. Bare Hill Correctional Facility is the fifth North Country prison to close in as many years, following Great Meadow, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) is calling for new drone laws after officers discovered a package containing drugs, weapons and other items ...