A sweeping prison reform package honoring Robert Brooks is on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk — but she says her signature depends on key revisions, according to Spectrum News. The legislation, passed in ...

Mayor-elect Mamdani just hired a former felon and social justice advocate who also happens to be Black and not orange, so of course the right wing is losing their minds over it.

The quiet streets of Edenton jolted awake Monday morning when 75-year-old Marie Steinburg stepped into her driveway and found ...

It’s Scotland’s largest prison and has housed some of the country’s most high-profile prisoners for over one hundred years.

Guards' strike, staff shortages and rising violence plague New York corrections facilities as reform legislation awaits ...

On the anniversary of Robert Brooks' death, advocates in Albany called on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign an Omnibus ...

A multi-institution research team has conducted a multi-year study to better understand how extended and repeated stays in solitary confinement impact prisoners both physically and psychologically.

The statewide blue wave in which New York Democrats made big gains in nearly every corner of the state this November had one ...

The number of Indigenous deaths in custody last year was the highest since 1980 when a national monitoring program first published data about who died in police watch houses and prisons, according to ...

One year ago tonight, Robert Brooks of Greece was killed inside a state prison in central New York. Six former guards are now ...

Today marks one year since Robert Brooks was fatally beaten by prison officers at Marcy Correctional Facility near Utica. A ...

As the proposed law was approved in October, Al Jazeera reported that Chega's leader Andre Ventura said: “We are today ...