Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the ...

A former correction officer has entered a surprise guilty plea in the trial related to the beating death of inmate Robert ...

A New York prison guard accused of failing to intervene in the beating death of an inmate has pleaded guilty to reckless ...

Two inmates have been accused of assaulting corrections officers at the Auburn Correctional Facility in Cayuga County.

For seven minutes — seven gut-churning, nauseating, disgusting minutes — he stood in that room close enough to touch him, and ...

The family of a 20-year-old man who died of appendicitis in Rikers Island custody last year is suing the city and the ...

The class action in Manhattan federal court alleges that toilet restrictions are so severe within the five detention center, ...

A Black man filed a civil rights lawsuit in December 2025, accusing Department of Correction (DOC) officers of sodomizing him.

Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates? By Jan Ransom Jan Ransom has been covering the ...

ST. GABRIEL, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections confirmed that an inmate at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center has died. Officials said 38-year-old Antonio Dukes was an ...

A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.

The wind howled outside the Oneida County courthouse as David Kingsley stood before Judge Robert Bauer and was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the beating death of Robert Brooks. Brooks, ...