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Joseph Gordon has been locked up for nearly 30 years. A model inmate, he is eligible for parole -- but only if he expresses remorse for a crime he says [...]

It should be no surprise that The Village Voice has ended its print edition in favor of an online, digital-only presence. The alternative newspaper, whose weekly edition once helped set [...]

In her new book, ''Blood in the Water,'' Heather Ann Thompson offers the most detailed account yet of the historic uprising by inmates over squalid conditions at Attica Correctional Facility [...]

ALBANY -- The job of an internal affairs investigator in New York State's corrections department can be thankless work. So it was a rare occasion last month when officials summoned [...]

Speaking from a Brooklyn courtroom in 2010, a federal judge delivered a rebuke to New York State corrections officials. The state had just agreed to pay $300,000 to settle the [...]

It took over four years, a disabling prison beating and the intervention of a stranger for George Williams to finally learn how to master a Dark Caesar with a low [...]

A few days after Ramon Fabian arrived at the Ulster Correctional Facility on the southern edge of the Catskill Mountains last year, a guard conducting the morning head count yelled [...]

The United States Justice Department is now reviewing inmate abuse at Attica Correctional Facility, the upstate New York prison that employed three officers who pleaded guilty in March to state [...]

Three guards accused of beating an inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility so severely that doctors had to insert a plate and six pins into his leg each pleaded guilty [...]

ATTICA, N.Y. -- On the evening of Aug. 9, 2011, one month before the 40th anniversary of the bloody Attica prison riot, a guard in that remote facility in western [...]

When he was elected in December as the leader of the city's 25,000 unionized carpenters, Michael Bilello was helping to build the new PATH station at ground zero. After the [...]

Joe Dady has been plying the waters of New York Harbor since 1976, when he followed his father and five older brothers into the tugboat trade. He started as a [...]

The charge being weighed by a Manhattan jury in the case of the Republican campaign consultant John Haggerty Jr. is whether he took $1.1 million of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's [...]

The run down La Balma covers 10km, sees us drop more than 2,000m in altitude, and takes all afternoon. It's bitterly cold when we start, leaving the pistes behind, traversing [...]

Has the age of austerity finally arrived in Aspen? It's the second day of my visit to the Colorado resort and the fur-coated celebrities and festival of conspicuous consumption I [...]

London Anxious parents will be able to keep track of teenagers as they travel round the world on a gap year, thanks to a new smartphone app. Gaptrac automatically logs [...]

A British walking weekend doesn't have to mean rough sheets in a rustic bunkhouse. These hotels combine creature comforts with great locations for enjoying the countryside. A Corner of Eden, [...]