Day 1 of mediation concluded late Monday afternoon between leadership with the NYSCOPBA, the union representing the corrections officers on strike across the state, and DOCCS. Read more from WBEN:

Many of the current and former workers 7 News reporter Derek Heid spoke to outside of Attica Correctional on Tuesday said they were stunned to hear what Hochul said on Tuesday.

The 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his cell at Auburn Correctional Facility, one of dozens of state prisons where corrections officers have walked off the job over working conditions.

Inmates are being transferred from Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County to other prisons this week due to staffing shortages from a prison strike.

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.

A state prisoner died early Saturday at Auburn Correctional Facility in the Finger Lakes region — in the midst of the correction officers’ wildcat strike now entering its seventh day — amid

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

As corrections officer strikes continue into week two, DOCCS is now serving “legal papers” to those who haven’t returned to work. DOCCS provided WBEN with a statement explaining why:

Correction officers protesting outside the New York Correctional Facility are facing serious consequences for each day they remain off the job