The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in ...

Urgent reform is needed to avoid another prison overcrowding crisis as rising numbers of people being recalled to prison is ...

In the wake of further violence in state prisons, North Country lawmakers are again calling for drastic prison reform. “It is ...

Robert Ricks, the father of Robert Brooks who died after corrections officers beat him at Marcy Correctional Facility, spoke at a joint hearing of the State Assembly and Senate.

Her proposals include a new unit called The Future of Prisons in New York State that would create a strategy for safer ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) –The father of Robert Brooks, the man who died after being beaten by Marcy Corrections officers, was at ...

While Robert Ricks said it was imperative for lawmakers to address “the level of evilness, that level of unaccountability ...

More than 500 advocates and lawmakers rallied side by side at the Capitol building in Albany Tuesday, asking for the passage ...

Eric Schneiderman is advising the father of Brooks, who was beaten to death in an upstate prison late last year.

Urgent reform is needed to avoid another prison overcrowding crisis as rising numbers of people being recalled to prison is “trapping” them in the criminal justice system, a new report has warned.

He met with New York lawmakers advocating for change within the New York State Prison System. “Having experienced the trauma, the atrocity of seeing my son in a body bag and then seeing him ...