The Department of Justice has released data revealing the amount of sexual victimization in prisons and local jails in the U.S.

As frustrations among corrections officers mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious, records and interviews show. By Jan Ransom and Bianca Pallaro The reporters analyzed ...

Both decisions were made to take pressure off the state to fill positions that have remained vacant since thousands of correction officers were fired this year following a weeks-long strike over ...

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J. B. Nicholas runs a news website called The Free Lance from his home in upstate New York, and, near the end of last year, he started obsessively tracking one story: a man confined at a state prison ...

NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A jury convicted a former New York correctional officer of murder in the fatal beating of an inmate late last year while acquitting two other former guards in the killing, ...

Ashley Dolcy heard panic in her husband’s voice. On most evenings, they would talk after she returned home from her job as an assistant principal at a school in the Bronx. Jason “Poppy” Phillips would ...

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. It’s been 54 years since the infamous Attica prison ...