BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In 2021, former Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Human Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement ...

In a direct appeal to Gov. Kathy Hochul, members of the Assembly Minority Conference are calling for the immediate repeal of ...

The HALT Act remains at the center of the corrections officers strike across New York. Los Angeles removes fire chief in wake ...

This Halt Bill- there’s no repercussions for anything the inmate does now. The maximum is very little, they can’t do anything ...

Hundreds of corrections officers are striking in defiance of state law, claiming in part that the Humane Alternatives to Long ...

New York State announced changes to state prisons to entice striking correction officers to go back to work, according to a ...

Correction officers at over 20 New York State prisons are striking for a third day on Wednesday, including the Western New York facilities of Attica Correctional Facility, ...

New York’s top corrections official declared a “prison-wide state of emergency” Thursday and temporarily suspended parts of ...

New York’s Department of Corrections has temporarily suspended parts of the HALT Act in response to ongoing correction ...

The bill would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs—and impede therapeutic research.

Following an inmate uprising at Riverview Correctional Facility Thursday, Assemblyman Scott Gray, R-Watertown, has called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to suspend the HALT Act for a month in an effort to ...

In a memo to all correctional facility superintendents, the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community ...