The ongoing violence at correctional facilities across New York State has Congresswoman Tenney concerned for officers and ...

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 ...

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

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

As New York correction officers continue their strike, state lawmakers remain split over prison staffing reforms and the ...

The bill’s full name is the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl (or HALT) Act. It means traffickers of fentanyl-related ...

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 ...

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

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

Provisions of HALT Act allow for temporary suspension when “circumstances create a significant and unreasonable risk to the ...