The decision was hailed as a success by prisoner rights advocates in attendance. Christian Walker, 44, died at High Desert State Prison on April 15, 2023.

The rapper, actor and designer arrived for the first day of trial on Jan. 21. He turned down a last-minute prosecution plea ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison ... to help victims of the Islamic State group. Pakhshan has been sentenced ...

UTICA, N.Y. — A New York prison where a 43-year-old man died earlier this month after he was violently beaten by correctional officers will get a new superintendent, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday.

In addition, the governor said she would add staffers to the state corrections department's special investigation office to handle complaints and direct the agency to hire an outside firm to ...

New York’s attorney general has appointed a special prosecutor in the death of a man who was beaten by state corrections officers ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's attorney general appointed a veteran ...

Rohde said, “staying calm and trying to get the ball to the middle,” was crucial in navigating NC State’s defense. “A lot of the time you’ll bring it up the sideline and they’ll come a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul toured Marcy state prison on Monday and subsequently announced that Danielle Medbury, the prison’s acting superintendent, had been removed from that position. Medbury ...

Williams told CNN both he and his family have attempted to file reports with the Office of Special Investigations at the state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, but he doesn ...

On Dec. 9, Robert L. Brooks, an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, was beaten by multiple correction officers after being transferred to that prison from nearby Mohawk ...

Corrections officers at the state prison where their co-worker was slain on Christmas are turning off their body cameras and retaliating against inmates, denying them showers and serving them only ...