Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities in a central hallway.

The trial of the man charged with attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie at a New York lecture began on Tuesday ...

Michael Olson, 56, drugged and raped a teenage girl for months and targeted several other minors for depraved abuse, ...

The number of incarcerated people nationwide has declined, and almost 200 correctional facilities have closed in the past 20 ...

A man arrested for firing a shotgun outside an upstate New York synagogue during the early months of the Israel-Hamas war has ...

The 9/11 case is at a crossroads in the long running challenge over whether a key confession is tainted by C.I.A. torture ...

Mufid Fawaz Alkhader was arrested after he fired a shotgun twice on the front steps of Temple Israel in Albany back in December 2023.

El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...

The lockdown at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone officially ended on Tuesday, according to a post from the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

The Secretary of State called the proposal, which is undoubtedly illegal, an "act of extraordinary friendship." ...