Thousands of corrections officers at dozens of prisons have been protesting working conditions in wildcat strikes across the state. By Jan Ransom The attacks occurred years earlier when Bennie Thorpe ...

A Westchester prison has spent 20 years keeping imprisoned mothers connected to their children through a special program. Bedford Hills Correctional Facility has offered the Bedford Babies Quilting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Advocates from 30 organizations are raising alarm bells about what they consider dangerous and deteriorating conditions at Bedford ...

Levy Konigsberg Attorney Anna Kull has filed 10 sexual abuse lawsuits against New York State on behalf of former female inmates of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. As has been seen in similar ...

Nearly 100 female and transgender inmates who were forced to move to an upstate prison amid a staffing crisis on Rikers Island will be returning to the troubled jail complex, the Department of ...

More than 200 women and transgender inmates at Rikers Island will be moved to state-run prisons to help reduce staffing shortages that have plagued the dysfunctional city jail, according to officials.