Monitor urges contempt proceedings begin against New York City over Rikers jail conditions
Contempt proceedings should be initiated against New York City over its failure...
Report: Wide racial disparity in New York prison discipline
Black and Hispanic people incarcerated in New York state prisons are more...
New York scraps word ‘inmate’ in state law
New York has amended several state laws to remove the word “inmate...
New York prisons lift ban on book about Attica uprising
New York authorities have lifted a ban that had stopped state prison...
All New Yorkers released from prison could vote under bill
All individuals released on parole could vote in New York under a...
Opinions & observations: Alternatives to Incarceration programs alone won’t fix a broken criminal justice system
Amidst calls to divest from policing and invest in communities, the mayor...
Killer of L&B Spumoni Gardens co-owner gets 24 years to life
The killer of the co-owner of a famous Gravesend restaurant is...
Brooklyn man gets 15 years for 2005 ‘cold case’ killing
A Bedford-Stuyvesant man was sentenced last week to 15 years in...
They met as children. Now married, she’s been visiting him in prison for nearly 20 years.
Saturday, 5:00 a.m. — Kaywonda Banks sits in an unmarked olive...