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A state Corrections Officer reportedly struck and killed a pedestrian while driving to work at Sing Sing Correctional Facility early Tuesday morning in Brooklyn.

The formidable facade of the former Portsmouth Naval Prison has inspired myths and plenty of conversation in the local community.

After 11 legal attempts to overturn a 1992 Manhattan murder conviction that was based on testimony since recanted or found to be false, Fernando Bermudez will have a day in court next month that his defenders say could free him from an upstate prison.

Stephen Dantzig is full of life. Outgoing and chatty, with a twinkle in his eyes and unflagging energy, you'd never have detected his inability to hear; yet the world he inhabited was virtually silent for close to 60 years.

"Theatre," says Professor Lorraine Moller, Artistic Director of Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, in her foreword to Laurence Tocci's The Proscenium Cage [pdf] , "may well be one of the few antidotes to the de-humanizing climate of prisons." The use of theater in prisons has many forms: from projects designed to ...

On the day the dictator took him, James Sabune got a warning to leave Uganda. But the Rutgers University-Camden law student was defiant and stubborn.

In the fall of 1976, a friend called to tell me that Idi Amin's people had killed our former college classmate James Sabune.

A 16-year-old Milford boy was charged with assault on police, interfering with police and criminal trespass late Thursday, after police ordered him off a beach after curfew and he allegedly resisted.

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ALBANY - State correction officials are beefing up an upstate drug-treatment facility for prison-bound parolees from throughout the state, an initiative fueled by new Rockefeller Drug Law reforms signed in April.

A New York Police Department rookie just couldn't wait to get started. One of the NYPD's newest officers made his first arrest Thursday just minutes after graduating from the Police Academy in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden.

Being a good dad can be a hard job in the best circumstances. Being a father while serving a prison sentence can make it impossible.

" The Con Film Festival ," a two-week, twenty-one film series of prison movies, spotlighting cons, ex-cons and other incarcerated outcasts, runs at Film Forum through Thursday, 21 May 2009.