Correction Officer Union

Life Inside February 2, 2017

Discipline at work, leniency at home—with doubts.

By Cary Johnson, as told to Maurice Chammah

Feature November 15, 2016

Prisoners describe a rampage by correctional officers in a New York prison.

By Tom Robbins

News April 11, 2016

For decades, New York state’s corrections officers union has held the power in disciplinary decisions.

By Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz and Tom Robbins

News December 20, 2015

Under pressure, New York says it will better track correctional officers

By Tom Robbins

News October 20, 2015

Amid abuse charges, union acts to ‘protect our officers.’

By Alysia Santo

Commentary October 5, 2015

It’s time to take these cases away from local prosecutors.

By Eliot Spitzer

Feature September 27, 2015

Corrections officials say he injured an inmate and lied about it. He’s still a state employee. He’s more the rule than the exception.

By Tom Robbins

News July 13, 2015

The drug use that plagues the state now haunts its cellblocks.

By Carl Stoffers

Graphics December 23, 2014

More states have passed solitary confinement reforms this year than in the past 16 years.

By Eli Hager and Gerald Rich