New York's prisons are still in a state of emergency, lacking the staff they need to run properly and relying on a detachment of National Guard troops to shore up security staff headcounts. But for ...

The new state budget authorized Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration to close as many as three prisons as New York struggles with staffing shortages.

Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) — who, as West Virginia’s governor, appointed Marshall to lead the state’s prison ... of a staffing crisis so severe that the governor had declared a state of emergency ...