Town Board members said they were not told by Supervisor Bill McKenna that a person they voted to hire for a Maintenance ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

Utica, N.Y. — A third New York state corrections officer has pleaded guilty in connection with the fatal beating of an inmate earlier this year at a Central New York prison. The corrections officer, ...

Marcy, N.Y. — A former Mid-State corrections officer admitted Friday to trying to cover up a fatal beating of an inmate in March. Joshua Bartlett has agreed to cooperate against others in exchange for ...

Marcy, N.Y. — A second former Mid-State corrections officer has admitted to filing false reports to cover up the fatal beating of an inmate in March. On Friday, Nathan Palmer pleaded guilty to ...

Nicholas Vitale II, 33, of Holland Patent, pleaded guilty before Oneida County Court Judge Michael R. Nolan Tuesday morning, ...

One of the correction officers indicted related to the beating death of an inmate at the Mid-State Correctional Facility has admitted to his role in the cover-up. Nicholas ...

The Legislature did its job passing changes in the wake of two killings; the governor needs to act with speed to make them law.

Republican leadership did not include the closure of Green Bay Correctional Institution in its budget items, meaning it could ...

ALBANY – In the five months after prison officers beat 43-year-old Robert Brooks to death in Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, the state’s Commission on Correction, an oversight ...

ALBANY — The homicide of Robert L. Brooks, who died after being severely beaten by correction officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in December, could spur an overhaul of the state’s prison ...