LISTEN: Overturned conviction shines light on legacy of disgraced detective
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Freezing conditions at Brooklyn jail during season’s first cold snap
As temperatures dipped below freezing last Friday, incarcerated people on some floors...
Use of force by staff has tripled at Brooklyn jail since 2015, despite reforms
With violent incidents on the rise throughout New York City’s...
More New Yorkers serving life in prison are from Brooklyn than anywhere else in the city. Reformers are calling for relief.
The recent death of New York State’s longest-serving female...
LISTEN: Here’s how Sunset Park is combating ICE
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In the heat wave, one Brooklyn jail caught fire. The other was ‘boiling-hot.’
Brooklyn’s jails struggled to deal with soaring temperatures this weekend...
After 7-year push, ‘gravity knives’ are decriminalized
After seven years and two previous vetoes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday...
Lawyers representing the poorest New Yorkers demand better pay
About 40 New York City public defenders and legal staff members joined...
Will Cuomo decriminalize ‘gravity knives’ in New York this time around?
A bill to decriminalize so-called “gravity knives” has passed the New...