This week on the Disabilities Beat, WBFO’s Emyle Watkins spoke with Ify Chikezie, a staff attorney at the NYCLU about what a ...

Corrections officers at DOCCS facilities across New York state are on strike. The National Guard has been activated and ...

The New York Public Employees Federation has reached an agreement with the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision that protects civilian staff who work in state prisons.

Day 1 of mediation ended on Monday with discussions about suspending certain provisions of the HALT Act and other demands made by corrections staff.

The suit alleges that the strikes threaten DOCCS’s operations and jeopardize the safety and security of working correctional ...

The ongoing correction officers strike happening across New York State is now over one week in progress. The illegal walkouts are staged at correctional facilities ...

Some state prisons have been “left unguarded” during an unsanctioned correction officer strike, jeopardizing the safety of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul once dubbed Hazel Dukes, the venerable leader of State’s NAACP chapter, “my mom on Earth.” But Dukes and ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- Negotiations began with NYSCOPBA, representing protesting correctional officers, and DOCCS, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

Assemblymembers Dana Levenberg and Chris Burdick have issued a joint statement addressing the ongoing strikes by corrections ...

NYS DOCCS has confirmed that inmates are being transferred out of Collins Correctional Facility due to staffing shortages caused by the corrections officer's strike.