New York is set to lower the minimum hiring age for prison guards from 21 to 18, a move to boost the ranks of corrections officers during a shortage that was exacerbated after the state fired more ...

The opening of the Newark facility has sparked protests outside the fenced-in building, including from Mayor Ras Baraka.

Italian-American Catholic priest Robert Sirico, who was recently interviewed about the papal conclave, has a very famous ...

It come as the relationship between the U.S. and its neighbor has been undermined by the president's tariffs and talk of ...

Disgraced rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial began Monday with jury selection, shortly after the rapper formally rejected a ...

Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark staged a predawn demonstration outside an immigrant detention center. He argues that the ...

The man said his wife told him lots of negative views about Diddy, including that she "generally doesn’t like him", but he ...

A New York prison guard pleaded guilty Monday as one of 10 corrections officers charged in the December killing of inmate ...

Footwear giant Skechers, the world's third-largest footwear company, will be bought out by the private equity firm 3G Capital ...

UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A correctional officer pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday in connection with the December death of inmate Robert Brooks, whose brutal beating at the Marcy Correctional Facility ...

The prison was closed in 1963 due to crumbling infrastructure and the high costs of repairing and supplying the island facility, because everything from fuel to food had to be brought by boat.