Hundreds of corrections officers are striking in defiance of state law, claiming in part that the Humane Alternatives to Long ...

The HALT Act remains at the center of the corrections officers strike across New York. Los Angeles removes fire chief in wake ...

In a direct appeal to Gov. Kathy Hochul, members of the Assembly Minority Conference are calling for the immediate repeal of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In 2021, former Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Human Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement ...

In our opinion, Gov. Kathy Hochul took the wrong first step when prison workers went on strike Monday in Collins, Brocton and more than two dozen other state prisons. Because the governor didn’t ...

New York’s Department of Corrections has temporarily suspended parts of the HALT Act in response to ongoing correction ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WBNG) -- Protesters joined outside the Elmira Correctional Facility for a sixth day to protest working ...

The state has temporarily suspended parts of the HALT Act, a law limiting how long an inmate can be placed in solitary ...

Following an inmate uprising at Riverview Correctional Facility Thursday, Assemblyman Scott Gray, R-Watertown, has called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to suspend the HALT Act for a month in an effort to ...

In a memo to all correctional facility superintendents, the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community ...

New York State announced changes to state prisons to entice striking correction officers to go back to work, according to a ...

Correctional officers continued picketing outside of New York State prisons on Thursday despite Governor Hochul and union ...