The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, will take control and staff two prisons in Central Texas later this year ...

A major milestone in the effort to improve rural health care in South Carolina is being celebrated Monday. State and local ...

After declining a plea deal, a Marcy Correctional Facility officer, charged in connection with the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility in December, was back in court Monday.

The Legislature did its job passing changes in the wake of two killings; the governor needs to act with speed to make them ...

The Legislature has responded to the recent killings of two inmates by New York State corrections officers inside prisons ...

After homicides behind bars and strikes by guards, Gov. Kathy Hochul made changes to New York’s budget. That did not satisfy ...

Marcy, N.Y. — State prison officials have replaced the superintendent at a Central New York prison where guards fatally beat ...

By Benjamin Oreskes Reporting from the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. The close of New York State’s legislative session in ...

The omnibus bill was a response in large part to the highly publicized death of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man who was beaten on Dec. 9 at the Marcy Correctional Facility upstate in Oneida ...

A federal lawsuit accused NY corrections officers of fatally beating Messiah Nantwi, calling it part of a pattern of abuse ...

The family of an inmate who died after being beaten at Mid-State Correctional Facility, in March, filed a federal lawsuit ...

Messiah Nantwi was killed March 1 at Mid-State prison, becoming the second inmate to be fatally beaten in a NY prison in ...