When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

The Prison Policy Initiative's report reveals how disciplinary systems in prisons around the US make those facilities less safe for everyone.

A Rikers Island correction officer suffered bleeding on the brain and underwent emergency surgery after she was struck in the ...

The death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility has prompted legislative efforts to reform New York’s prison ...

The message to politicians convicted or accused of corruption couldn’t be clearer: You have a friend in the Oval Office.

State of the Judiciary address given yesterday by the chief judge of New York’s highest court, Rowan Wilson, is usually a ...

New York Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, at his State of the Judiciary address, shared the podium with the head of corrections and ...

Zambito covers energy, transportation and economic growth for the USA Today Network’s New York State team. He recently ...

A feature built into the body cameras worn by Marcy prison guards allowed state corrections officials to retrieve footage hours after the incident.

Some fear the Laken Riley Act will create a shoplifting-to-deportation express or cause crowding that results in violent ...

Steve Coleman was kept for 21 months after his parole date because the state could not find a nursing home placement.

The Trump administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.