In prison, I have learned well that optics, not facts, drive the gossip that incarcerated men whisper. And those whispers determine one’s perpetual caste in this kingless kingdom where only ...

Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining. — Wikimedia Commons/Brett Weinstein (Nrbelex) The New York Attorney General’s Office has launched a formal investigation into the hanging death of an ...

The state Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation has begun a formal probe into the suicide death last year of a man incarcerated at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. The suicide occurred ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man has been sentenced to multiple decades in prison for the Chinatown shooting death of a 71-year-old man who was out for a walk nearly four years ago. Alphonso Joyner was found ...

Kerwin Pittman, a social justice activist, has purchased the former Wayne County Correctional Center in Goldsboro, making him the first formerly incarcerated person in U.S. history to purchase a ...

Thirty-four inspector general letters detail DMV snooping, Sing Sing heat failures and other New York agency misconduct amid renewed oversight. New York Inspector General Lucy Lang released 34 ...

New York prisons and jails reported a total of 25 people suffered sepsis-related deaths while in custody amid mounting questions about the incidents in recent years, USA TODAY Network has learned.

As frustrations among corrections officers mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious, records and interviews show. By Jan Ransom and Bianca Pallaro The reporters analyzed ...

"Every single man here deserves the hope of becoming someone better." An impressive festival trailer has debuted online for a documentary film titled Beyond, made by directors Asia Johnson & Michael ...

Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin, who earned an Oscar nomination for the “Sing Sing” screenplay, has boarded Ben Rekhi’s documentary short “The Breakthrough Group” as an executive producer. The film, ...

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