This week on the Disabilities Beat, WBFO’s Emyle Watkins spoke with Ify Chikezie, a staff attorney at the NYCLU about what a ...

Statewide division continues over the Halt Act. Correction officers entered their ninth day of striking on Tuesday and said ...

New York State’s HALT Act has been the center of attention at almost every prison across the state for a week now, as ...

The families of striking corrections officers paid the state Capitol a visit Monday, meeting with Republican lawmakers and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — In 2021, former Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Human Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement ...

Sheriff Brian Schenck is calling for urgent changes to the HALT Act, arguing that the law has led to a surge in violence ...

The families of striking corrections officers paid the state Capitol a visit Monday, meeting with Republican lawmakers and ...

Stay up to date on the latest headlines in today's Sunrise Smart Start for Wednesday, February 26, 2025. Satellite images ...

But a joint statement issued Sunday by Senators James Skoufis, Pete Harckham, Michelle Hinchey and Rachel May calling for ...

Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski on Tuesday called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to repeal the HALT Act to restore safety to New York’s ...

New York State Assembly Republicans are ramping up pressure on Gov. Kathy Hochul to repeal the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, arguing that it has exacerbated violence and ...

As strikes at New York prisons enter their ninth day, an effort in Albany to answer prison worker pleas has been voted down.