New York state agencies spent more than $1.6 billion on overtime pay in 2025, marking a nearly 23% jump from the prior year, due in part to a corrections officer strike and ongoing staffing issues in ...

Prison guards in New York say the state's correctional system is in crisis. Both guards and inmates are pleading with the state to fix what they say is a broken system.

An upstate jury will soon decide the fate of a New York prison guard facing criminal charges in the beating death of an incarcerated man during an unauthorized prison strike last year. Correction ...