Lawyers say the death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy ...

The autopsy by the Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s Office showed Brooks, 43, suffered extensive bruising, a broken nose ...

An autopsy report has ruled Robert L. Brooks' death as a homicide. The cause of death is listed as "compression of the neck and multiple blunt impact injuries." ...

The officials running New York’s city jails and state prisons were ... Despite a period when Mayor de Blasio did order releases that dropped the jail population to its lowest in memory, that ...

MALONE, N.Y. (WCAX) -The Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone, New York, is on lockdown after the third incident in a week that has sent corrections staff to the hospital over an unknown substance.

MALONE, N.Y. (WCAX) - Changes could be coming to security at a Northern New York prison. The Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone has been on lockdown after several staff members were sent to ...

Woodbury County Sheriff Chad Sheehan is helping pay for the new county jail by taking in more federal prisoners. Sheehan is asking the county supervisors for funds to hire eight more officers to ...

Utica, N.Y. — An inmate who was badly injured last month at a Central New York state prison has died, his family said. The inmate, Edward Sholtz, 22, died Sunday at Wynn Hospital in Utica ...

As New York City’s troubled jail complex tries to improve its food, the people who cook there see a higher mission. Washington makes money available to the states to help young people with ...

A 2-inch gap between the bunk and the wall are what allowed Matthew Settles to hang himself in a San Diego jail cell two and a half years ago. That tie-off point is depicted in photographs and a ...

near Hegeman Ave. in East New York at about 10:10 p.m. on Jan. 23 when he got into an argument with the suspect, cops said. The suspect, estimated to be around 60 years old, then pulled a gun and ...