Sweat "acted like he knew [Mitchell] for years," former inmate says. — -- As both a prison employee and a corrections officer face charges for allegedly helping convicted murderers Richard Matt ...

A 44-year-old inmate who escaped from a New York City-area hospital last month was tracked through New Jersey, Virginia and then back to Queens, where he was recaptured Tuesday morning after ...

Home of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse is located at 40 Foley Square in lower Manhattan. (Nina Pullano/Courthouse News Service) MANHATTAN (CN) ...

A former New York State correctional officer will be sentenced Monday morning for his role in the beating death of inmate Robert Brooks in December 2024. Christopher Walrath pleaded guilty to ...

This year is the 30th year that New Yorker Christopher Simmons has spent in prison. He was sentenced in the mid-1990s after a series of crimes in his early twenties. After a few anxious years inside, ...

Four prison guards pleaded guilty Monday in the death of a Black inmate whose brutal beating at an upstate New York prison was captured on bodycam videos.

Video footage of the inmate in handcuffs being punched and stomped by guards triggered widespread shock and calls for reform ...

New York prison inmates will receive free phone calls, ending what one group called a "remarkable burden." The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced the policy change ...

A former New York state prison guard has been found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the beating death of a Black inmate in December, local authorities said Monday, in a case that sparked outrage ...

UTICA, N.Y. — A former corrections officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for his role in the death of a Black inmate whose beating by a group of guards at an upstate New York prison was ...