The deal also suspends element of the state HALT Act that restricts use of solitary confinement as punishment.

New contract offer would create a committee to determine whether certain provisions of a law that regulates solitary confinement could be changed.

National Guard soldiers thrown into New York’s prison system may not have an end date in sight as the 17-day correctional officers strike continues in a majority of the state’s facilities.

At least seven prisoners in New York have died in just over two weeks since correctional officers triggered the prison system's largest work stoppage in four decades. Officers at two upstate prisons first walked off the job on Feb.

NYCLU has filed a lawsuit against the NYS DOCCS saying that the department is infringing on incarcerated individuals' First Amendment rights.