Across the state, multiple lawsuits involving more than 90 incarcerated men allege brutal beatings and waterboarding by ...

NY attorney general’s office is seeking to be removed as defense counsel in four cases pending in U.S. District Court ...

Revamping the school aid formula and banning cellphones in schools also will be among the key issues when lawmakers return ...

The New York State Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation is conducting a preliminary assessment into the matter ...

Four months in solitary confinement was the 36-year-old hairdresser's introduction to Iran's notorious Evin prison. The only people she saw were her interrogators. She thought that she would "die ...

Brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez were found guilty of murdering Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

New York’s attorney general has appointed a special prosecutor in the death of a man who was beaten by state corrections ...

A New York prison where a handcuffed man died after being beaten by officers this month will get a new superintendent. Gov.

A Buffalo woman has been sentenced to one to three years in state prison for fatally stabbing her boyfriend during a domestic dispute, Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane announced.

New York Attorney Letitia James is recusing herself and her office from a probe into the death of an inmate by upstate prison ...

James recused the Office of Special Investigation from the case due to a potential conflict of interest she said could have caused justice to be "delayed or denied" to the family of the victim.

Over the last 15 years, the state has closed more than 20 prisons. Five were in the North Country, including Mariah Shock, Camp Gabriels and the Great Meadow Facility, near Fort Ann. The closures ...