How Gov. Hochul is bungling New York’s prison crisis
Gov. Kathy Hochul won’t address striking corrections officers’ key gripe: the state’s 2021 HALT Act, which restricts ...
Olean Times Herald5h
Inmate death reported as illegal prison guard strike stretches into 2nd week
A 61-year-old inmate died over the weekend at one of the New York prisons where National Guard troops were deployed to ...
City & State New York6h
Advocacy groups say state prison agency can’t halt law limiting solitary confinement
The commissioner of the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision released a memo last week announcing that ...
Them. on MSN7h
The Trump Administration Is Transferring Trans Prisoners to Housing Based on Assigned Sex
The Bureau of Prisons will cease trans-inclusive practices like using incarcerated trans people’s correct pronouns and ...
Fyre Festival 2 has a date and location — but the lineup is still a question mark
Billy McFarland says Fyre Festival 2 is coming. The founder, who was imprisoned for wire fraud, released details on location, ...
Auburn Citizen13h
UPDATE: Mediation begins today to end NY correction officer strike
Mediation began Monday in an attempt to resolve the correction officer strike at several New York state prisons.
‘We’re human, finally’: A look inside an Idaho prison dorm offering men freedom and agency
Throughout the dorm men, like Valenciano and Williams, dressed in jeans and sweatshirts, go about their days with little ...
Opinion
Observer18hOpinion
New YORK STATE Strikes need quick attention
In our opinion, Gov. Kathy Hochul took the wrong first step when prison workers went on strike Monday in Collins, Brocton and more than two dozen other state prisons. Because the governor didn’t ...