Officer David Dowler is the 2025 Correction Officer of the Year at Richland Correctional Institution and Cathy Donovan-Barre, case manager, is the 2025 Employee of the Year, according to a news ...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Rensselaer County became the first county in the Capital Region Monday morning to swear in correction officers who resigned during the statewide prison strikes.

Jerri Cottrell, a state correction officer for seven years, was fired from her job at Auburn Correctional Facility two weeks before she's scheduled to give birth to a son. Cottrell, pictured here ...

Rensselaer County has officially welcomed three new corrections officers, all of whom transferred from the New York State ...

State prison correction officers and their supporters hold a rally outside the Capitol on Tuesday at East Capitol Park in Albany. Correction officers are demanding action from the Legislature and ...

SARATOGA COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Multiple counties in the Capital Region are welcoming fired correction officers to apply to county job positions, after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive ...

One corrections officer named as a person of interest in the Messiah Nantwi case was accused of violence in a now dismissed lawsuit. Of the 15 people placed on administrative leave involved in the ...

Hundreds of former state correction officers were at the state Capitol on Thursday to protest what they say were unjust firings. The officers were terminated after they walked off the job during ...

An inmate at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility has been arrested following an assault on a correction officer. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office reported that Matthew Kleabonas was ...

Saratoga County announced on Friday that they are welcoming correction officers who were fired for illegally striking to apply for open positions. The county is looking for six correction officers.

Most New York prisons reopened to visitors over the weekend after visitation was canceled during the three-week correction officer strike that ended March 10. The state Department of Corrections ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — State officials have failed to convince some 8,000 correction officers and sergeants to end their unlawful strike for safer working conditions. Now, their boss wants some ...