During the strikes, the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) asked Governor ...

A federal judge in Washington is briefly blocking the deportation of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan the day after ...

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

A New York judge reinstated restrictions on solitary confinement, challenging the state's correction department's extended ...

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

U.S. Department of Justice attorneys filed a nine-page document opposing a request by environmental groups for a temporary ...

An appellate judge has ordered the reinstatement of the HALT Act in prisons. When one of Madeline Dunn's 18-month-old twins ...

A judge has issued an injunction blocking New York’s corrections department from suspending parts of the HALT Act, a law ...

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

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 ...

The lawsuit claims that a new immigrant detention facility is being rushed forward by Republicans on ecologically sensitive ...