Department of Corrections

A memo is worrying many around New York State.

A state Department of Corrections lieutenant has been accused of stealing state-owned ammunition and reselling it for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A state grand jury has voted to file charges against six state correctional police officers in connection with the alleged assault of an inmate at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Burlington County.

New Jersey has seen its policy for housing trans inmates change, while closure of the scandal-ridden women's prison has moved slowly.

All vacation and other paid leave was canceled for state prison guards through at least Monday, citing a pandemic staff shortage. A union president said staff mental health is in grave danger.

Corrections Officer Faustino Saucedo Spadea's #BlueFriday honoree for the week.

A fourth correctional police officer has been charged in a “brutal attack” on inmates at the state’s women’s prison after prosecutors say he lied and tried to cover up the attack, which was caught on surveillance camera. State prosecutors say video from the prison shows officers beating women inmates for no legitimate reason because they were not resisting or posing a threat...

The legislation signed by Governor Murphy is the first of its kind in the nation, according to ACLU-NJ.

Hudson, Bergen and Morris County jails, as well as Northern State Prison in Newark, are seeing more coronavirus cases.

The state's prisons chief says more time is needed to change system's sex abuse culture.