Top DOC overtime hogs at Rikers Island logged so many hours last year, it was the equivalent of six extra hours per day, 365 days a year, The Post found.

Attacks on law-abiding correctional officers by inmates are becoming all-too-routine news items across this region and New York state in recent months. This week’s lockdown at Collins is one more ...

Texas law bans nearly all abortions and threatens abortion providers with up to life in prison and $100,000 fines. New York ...

More sheriff’s deputies could help more people come to court in person. But Gov. Scott is suggesting the state leave deputy positions vacant next year.

A New York state prison was placed on lockdown after inmates took over and injured three guards, just days after staffing ...

The rebellion at Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County began around 1 a.m. on Wednesday, a union rep said.

Local leaders passed resolutions calling for the city and county to move toward zeroing out the number of youth in detention.

Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy Correction Facility on Dec. 9. At the time of the attack, he was serving a ...

PARK CITY, Utah — Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.

an external review of the state's beleaguered Department of Corrections is underway. The Chicago-based Falcon Correctional and Community Services began conducting visits to prisons last week ...

State prison inmates found loaded handguns on the side of Interstate 25 while picking up trash this week, according to the New Mexico Corrections Department. Nine inmates were picking up trash ...