Several pieces of legislation that further impact the ability of local law enforcement agencies in New York to work with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are being ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday appointed an ex-con-turned prison reformer as commissioner of the Department of Correction as his administration pushes a rehabilitation-focused overhaul ...

The 54-year-old died from a medical emergency while working at a correctional Facility in the Finger Lakes region.

The wildcat strike staged in February 2025 lasted nearly three weeks and resulted in thousands of prison guards being fired.

When the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision fired 2,000 correction officers to end a three-week-long strike in 2025, it exacerbated a staffing crisis.

Criminal justice advocates rallied at the state Capitol, accusing Governor Kathy Hochul of hypocrisy for demanding federal accountability while ignoring deaths in New York state prisons, and urging ...

For New York City’s mayor, the hard part isn’t deciding whether or not to shut down Rikers, but figuring out how to do it ...

NEW YORK -- New York City's juvenile jails are extremely violent and unsafe, the result of a deeply ingrained culture of violence in which guards routinely violate constitutional rights of teenage ...

For some, the vote today to end the use of solitary confinement is personal. "I spent 1,168 hours on Rikers "die-land," and I spent 1,122 of those hours in solitary confinement," Candie Hailey-Means ...

This article was published in partnership with Caught, the new podcast on juvenile justice from WNYC Studios and the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal-justice ...