This week on the Disabilities Beat, WBFO’s Emyle Watkins spoke with Ify Chikezie, a staff attorney at the NYCLU about what a ...

The suit alleges that the strikes threaten DOCCS’s operations and jeopardize the safety and security of working correctional ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- The second day of mediation concluded on the evening of Feb. 25. NYSCOPBA, the union representing the protesting officers, said that the discussions continued with the State and ...

A NYSCOPBA representative said there was progress made "on several issues" on Day 2 as mediators prepare to meet again this ...

DOCCS has temporarily suspended a solitary confinement reform law, known as HALT, after Hochul declared a state of emergency ...

The New York Public Employees Federation has reached an agreement with the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision that protects civilian staff who work in state prisons.

Gov. Kathy Hochul once dubbed Hazel Dukes, the venerable leader of State’s NAACP chapter, “my mom on Earth.” But Dukes and ...

In a memo Thursday, DOCCS Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III said the department would temporarily suspend portions of the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act during a state ...

The New York Public Employees Federation has reached an agreement with the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision that protects civilian staff who work in state prisons.

New York State Police say they are working with DOCCS to to review evidence in the incident that led to a lockdown of Collins Correctional Facility.

The NAACP board said they are “profoundly disturbed” over the governor’s decision to suspend elements of the HALT solitary ...

Day 1 of mediation ended on Monday with discussions about suspending certain provisions of the HALT Act and other demands made by corrections staff.