A correction officer at Clinton Correctional Facility was hospitalized with facial injuries following a violent assault by an inmate in the prison’s mess hall, according to a statement released Friday ...

A Clinton Correctional Facility officer had to be transferred to a local hospital and treated for facial injuries after being ...

Two other correction officers stepped in to help restrain the inmate, and they suffered minor injuries in the scuffle, ...

Man wrongfully imprisoned for 32 years sues authorities who put him there World's Tallest Teen, 7-foot-9 Center Olivier Rioux ...

May 9—Despite Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul's pledge not to rehire any of the 2,000 corrections officers her administration fired in March at the end of a 22-day wildcat strike, the state Department ...

DOCCS, NYSCOPBA spar over meeting request one month after correction officer strike Robert Harding The Citizen, Auburn (TNS) Apr 12, 2025 Updated Apr 18, 2025 ...

NYSCOPBA has been vocal about the need for improvements to ensure safer working environments and better treatment for correctional officers well before COVID hit in 2020.

NYSCOPBA said the meeting is of particular importance given DOCCS Commissioner Daniel Martuscollo's memo on Monday that asked prison superintendents to provide a list of inmates eligible for early ...

The union, NYSCOPBA, stated that the negotiations “ended poorly due to the State’s refusal to ensure that health insurance coverage would be made retroactive to the date of the first AWOL for ...

Unsigned memos on NYSCOPBA executive board letterhead circulated later that night urging the membership not to accept that deal, because it did not return health insurance coverage retroactively.

However, the attempt to end the standoff hit a new roadblock as the union representing the more than 13,000 corrections officers, the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent ...

The Watertown Daily Times first reported a letter shared by the union’s executive board to NYSCOPBA members asking them to side with them in rejecting the deal.