The federal Bureau of Prisons says it has increased staffing in recent months to make up for staggering shortfalls at the ...

A convicted killer who violated his parole won't be going back to prison. The New York State Parole Board has decided to ...

A sheriff who participated in the infamous manhunt for escaped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat in 2015 compared it to ...

Edward Kindt of Salamanca, who raped and murdered a woman in 1999 at the age of 15, was sentenced to seven days for violating parole earlier this summer, the NYS ...

The Poughkeepsie-based judge overseeing Kindt's parole violation hearing imposed a seven-day sentence of time already served ...

Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center has housed R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell, rapper 6ix9ine and, now, Sean "Diddy" Combs.

The Brooklyn facility has been described as “hell on earth” and an “ongoing tragedy.” In recent years, its conditions have ...

The facility, the only federal jail in New York City, has been plagued by problems since it opened in the 1990s.

Throughout the film "Sing Sing," characters “trust the process,” whether putting together a comedy production or challenging a wrongful conviction.

A Madison County Sheriff's Office corrections deputy suffered a laceration to his right arm when he was assaulted by a jail ...

The disgraced movie mogul was led out of Bellevue hospital by officers, shackled to a wheelchair and clutching books and what ...

It is not easy to explain why the court system is set up the way it is, and most people don’t care unless they get into the system as an employee or a defendant, which is why people hire lawyers who ...