Illegal strike by 12,000 NY corrections officers thinned staff even more, and cost money and lives, solved nothing.

One of the creepiest mysteries on Lost are the Whispers heard in the jungle, and there is actually more than one answer to ...

Corrections officers began returning to work on March 10 after weeks of protesting the HALT Act, a New York State law that ...

It's also a reminder of the disarray that ensues from strikes put on by state employees, who hold monopolies on public goods.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has ended the state prison-guard strike, but the larger crisis is far from over. For starters, she fired ...

Kathy Hochul and New York legislators repeal a law limiting the use of solitary confinement, as well as improve working conditions. The strike has roiled New York’s prison system, where nine out ...

Of that massive number, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day. Solitary confinement is the brutal practice of stuffing people into closet ...

Socorro County has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who alleges he was forced to live surrounded by his own waste in a county jail cell with no running water for weeks, ...

I’d been filming for four months in the punishment wing of the Maine State Prison when I asked an officer to lock me in a solitary confinement cell. I wanted to know what it was like to be shut ...