Prison guards in New York say the state's correctional system is in crisis. Both guards and inmates are pleading with the state to fix what they say is a broken system.

Overtime spending by state agencies jumped nearly 23% compared to the prior year. New York state agencies spent more than $1.6 billion on overtime pay in 2025, marking a nearly 23% jump from the prior ...

New York state agencies spent more than $1.6 billion on overtime pay in 2025, marking a nearly 23% jump from the prior year, due in part to a corrections officer strike and ongoing staffing issues in ...

A former corrections officer was found guilty of manslaughter Wednesday in the fatal beating of an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in upstate New York. The jury in Utica, New York, also ...

Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the only maximum security prison for women in the state, has had two suspected suicides ...

Thousands of New York City apartment building doorpersons, superintendents and other workers were set to vote Wednesday on ...

Utica, N.Y. — A jury found a former New York state corrections officer guilty of five of six charges in the beating death of an inmate last year in a state prison in Oneida County. The 12 jurors found ...

Overtime costs for state agencies in New York spiked nearly 23% in 2025 as they spent a total of $1.6 billion and approached ...

UTICA, N.Y. — A former corrections officer was found guilty of manslaughter Wednesday in the fatal beating of an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in upstate New York. The jury in Utica, New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ROME, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A prison guard is in the intensive care unit of Rome Hospital after being exposed to a suspicious substance ...

ROME, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A prison guard is in the intensive care unit of Rome Hospital after being exposed to a suspicious substance brought to the Mohawk Correctional Facility by a woman posing as a ...