How Open Books changes lives: Open Books doesn't just help prisoners pass the time, it's helping create a life post-prison The Prison Book Project, which has operated out of Open Books since 2000 ...

The last prison escape in New York state took place in July 2003, when two convicted murderers fled the maximum-security Elmira Correctional Facility, only to be recaptured two days later.

State prison officials on Monday confirmed Fisher was one of two sex offenders who died early on Oct. 22 at Elmira Correctional ... though the news release about his arrest lists his age as ...

An Elmira man who admitted to seriously injuring another man last fall in a downtown Elmira drive-by shooting will serve 15 years in state prison. Reginald McBride, 26, was also sentenced in ...

Fifty years ago, Kelly and his buddy Paul Liebold went on a vandalism spree through Elmira, slashing tires, breaking windows and defacing property. Their arrest and how the court ... a copy of his ...

The man who admitted to kidnapping a 9-year-old girl has been assigned to Elmira Correctional Facility to serve his sentence. Craig Ross Jr., 47, was admitted to the maximum security prison on ...

Kevin Monahan, the Washington County man sentenced to up to life in prison for shooting and killing Kaylin Gillis in his driveway last April is being housed at Elmira Correctional Facility.

(Wisbey) Mark Fleisher wrote that “Robinson championed the growing reform movement in prison administration. A few months before Robinson took office, the Elmira Reformatory opened as the world ...

Tananarive Due's The Reformatory is one of the best novels ... of unabashed racism while also making every hero in the book Black and celebrating Black excellence via figures like Zora Neale ...

Marquis, PhD, is senior manager in the Freewrite Project at PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing program; she previously organized programs to supply books in prisons On July 22, 2022 Texas ...