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Just hours after revelations of pervasive racial bias by prison guards in New York State were published last week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ordered a statewide inquiry. It will be [...]

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced on Monday that he was ordering an investigation into racial bias in the state prison system after an investigation by The New [...]

Jaimie Davenport and Billy Cassell had their first hearings before the New York State Board of Parole earlier this year. Both were serving a maximum of six years on a [...]

The racism can be felt from the moment black inmates enter New York's upstate prisons. They describe being called porch monkeys, spear chuckers and worse. There are cases of guards [...]

Officers at the Clinton Correctional Facility used excessive force when they dragged a handcuffed inmate face down through prison corridors and then, when he was near death, provided faulty medical [...]

On the night three years ago when Kevin Moore's dreadlocks were ripped out and his ribs and facial bones were broken, a group of New York State corrections officers involved [...]

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 [...]

At the time, it was a momentous announcement: New York City officials said they would eliminate solitary confinement at Rikers Island for all inmates under age 22. The declaration, made [...]

Within hours of the escape of two murderers from a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border last year, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said at a news conference [...]

In his two decades as leader of the nation's largest municipal correction officers' union, Norman Seabrook managed to consolidate near-total control, his authority on the cellblocks of Rikers Island often [...]

As federal agents tell it, the kickback scheme that led to the arrest on Wednesday of Norman Seabrook, the powerful leader of the New York City correction officers' union, was [...]

By the time David Sweat spoke to investigators from the office of New York State's inspector general last year, he had spent three weeks on the run, been shot by [...]

The two murderers who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility last year intentionally picked a Friday night when they knew an officer named Ronald Blair was on duty. They had [...]

OSSINING, N.Y. -- In a setback for the state corrections agency's campaign to crack down on brutality in its prisons, a Sing Sing guard whose repeated punching of an inmate [...]

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 [...]

The police and parole officers of Team 7 took up positions around the Harlem apartment building -- a few at the fire escape, some out front on 140th Street, the [...]

The district attorney with jurisdiction over the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., said on Wednesday that his office was reviewing the case of an inmate who died there in [...]

A decade ago, Martin F. Horn, then the commissioner of the New York City Correction Department, came up with a novel plan to close the worst of the jails on [...]

A correction officer at Rikers Island was arrested on Saturday after being accused of having sexual relations in a jailhouse closet with an inmate as well as possessing marijuana. After [...]

In the latest indication of how daunting it has been to remake the troubled New York City jails, the de Blasio administration is spending an additional $7 million on an [...]

After a series of assaults on guards at Rikers Island, the New York City Correction Department is seeking to delay a plan announced last year to eliminate the use of [...]

New York has agreed to a major overhaul in the way solitary confinement is administered in the state's prisons, with the goal of significantly reducing the number of inmates held [...]

DANNEMORA, N.Y. -- Inmates who have served time at the Clinton Correctional Facility here tell of being taken aside by a sergeant soon after they arrive and given a warning: [...]

A judge in Ulster County on Tuesday acquitted a New York State corrections officer of charges that he kicked an inmate so hard in the groin that part of his [...]

Inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York said the guards who beat them in the days after a brazen escape in June wore no name badges and [...]

On the night of Samuel Harrell's death in April, Lucas Renfrow, an inmate at Fishkill Correctional Facility, said he was walking up a cellblock stairwell when Mr. Harrell's body came [...]

Over the years, reports of brutality and neglect at the Rikers Island jail complex have become routine. And while the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has been working to [...]

The office of the United States attorney in Manhattan announced on Thursday that it was joining the investigation into the death of Samuel Harrell, a prisoner at the Fishkill Correctional [...]

On a bright summer's day at the Bronx Zoo, four adult female gorillas nursed their babies until the little gorillas were so full of mother's milk, they fell asleep in [...]