Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A man fatally beaten in a New York prison this month was repeatedly pummeled by correctional officers while ...

That year, novelist Charles Dickens visited Newgate Prison, where the turnkey told Dickens that James and John were “dead man”. James Pratt’s wife, Elizabeth, stood by him to the very end, and even ...

Police identified the suspect as 58-year-old Lawrence Gallow of Sacramento. Gallow was arrested Wednesday and is facing felony charges related to the hit-and-run, police said.

Many former and current prison staff across New York State, including in the North Country, are continuing to protest what they call "unsafe working conditions" in correctional facilities.The ...

A New York prison guard strike prompted Gov. Kathy Hochul to deploy the National Guard on Wednesday. Hochul's office said 3,500 members of the New York National Guard started reporting for duty ...

A group of civil rights activists and supporters of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign gathered outside Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday night, chanting slogans against capital ...

A 42-year-old California man was hit with a two-year federal prison sentence for groping an 18-year-old woman aboard a Burbank-to-Seattle Alaska Airlines flight, prosecutors said this week.

"These disruptive and unsanctioned work stoppages by some corrections officers must end as they are jeopardizing the safety of their colleagues, the prison population and causing undue fear for ...

Roughly 150 prison officers huddled around burn barrels across the street from Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York as they staged a work stoppage Tuesday afternoon. An hour’s drive ...

At a committee hearing last week, the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Greg Albritton, said construction of the first prison, which is located in Elmore County, is on track and set to be completed next year. That ...

Kathy Hochul threatened Tuesday to deploy National Guard troops to restore order as a strike among prison guards across the state entered its second day. State officials and union leaders agree that ...

Peltier, 80, left Coleman penitentiary in an SUV, according to a prison official. He didn't stop to speak with reporters or the roughly two dozen supporters who gathered outside the gates to ...