The families of striking corrections officers paid the state Capitol a visit Monday, meeting with Republican lawmakers and ...

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

Sheriff Brian Schenck is calling for urgent changes to the HALT Act, arguing that the law has led to a surge in violence ...

Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski on Tuesday called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to repeal the HALT Act to restore safety to New York’s ...

Statewide division continues over the Halt Act. Correction officers entered their ninth day of striking on Tuesday and said the Act needs to be repealed to restore prison control. Those incarcerated, ...

The Town of Marilla led the charge, voting to adopt a resolution that calls for the state legislature to turn what is now a temporary pause of the HALT Act into a permanent one. Other Republican ...

A local assemblyman has called for immediate action to address the "ongoing crisis" in New York State correctional facilities ...

But a joint statement issued Sunday by Senators James Skoufis, Pete Harckham, Michelle Hinchey and Rachel May calling for ...

The ongoing violence at correctional facilities across New York State has Congresswoman Tenney concerned for officers and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In 2021, former Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Human Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- Several State Republican Lawmakers are calling on Governor Hochul to repeal the Humane Alternatives to ...

As strikes at New York prisons enter their ninth day, an effort in Albany to answer prison worker pleas has been voted down.