A state law that bars the extended use of solitary confinement in state prisons, and mandates hours of out-of-cell time and rehabilitative programming, hasn't been enforced equally at every facility ...

A New York State Supreme Court judge in Albany County has ordered the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

A Supreme Court judge in Albany has temporarily restored the HALT Act, the policy that limits solitary confinement which ...

Two court rulings were handed down this week about restrictions on solitary confinement in correctional facilities in New ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

The prison agency has suspended solitary confinement restrictions since a corrections officers strike in February.

A.8871 isn’t a cure-all. But it is a foundation and a commitment to dignity, accountability, and infrastructure that outlasts political tides. It tells New Yorkers: our corrections system must uphold ...

Advocates for incarcerated individuals are concerned about the lack of heat mitigation measures in New York State Prisons, ...

NYS Department of Corrections & Community Supervision (DOCCS) officials said one of the convicted co-conspirators in the 2018 ...

A spokesperson for DOCCS confirmed that the agency had released the program bill last year and stood by its recommendations to expand eligibility for merit time programs. “Governor Hochul has been ...