Timothy and Quanzell Scholtz spoke about their family member Edward Sholtz, who died Jan. 5 at Wynn Hospital in Utica. The 22-year-old inmate from Syracuse was transferred there on Dec. 17 after he ...

Following what New York state corrections officers say is a surge in incidents in which prison staff have fallen ill after ...

New York's state prison system is under scrutiny after guards fatally beat an inmate in December, prompting protests and calls for reforms.

This report examines the sexual abuse of female prisoners largely at the hands of male correctional employees at eleven state ... women’s prisons in California, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New ...

1 Human Rights Watch, All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1996). 2 Nunn v. Michigan Department of Corrections, Civil Action No. 96-CV-71416 ...

The death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility has prompted calls by lawmakers in Albany for legislative reforms ...