Department of Corrections and Community Supervision

About 200 people picketed across the street from the Clinton Correctional facility in Dannemora Thursday afternoon as they participated in a statewide wildcat walkout by corrections officers.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul says she will deploy the state National Guard to correctional facilities on Wednesday if corrections officers continue an unauthorized strike.

A prison in Washington County, New York is set to close Wednesday after months of community uproar.

In mid-August, the union representing corrections officers in New York state said the state Department of Corrections had stopped testing for contraband…