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 ...

ALBANY - When Amy Chin began digging for traces of her family history, the only clue she had was an old ship manifest showing her grandfather's arrival to the U.S. in 1911 - well into the era of the ...

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.

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 ...

Nurses and guards in Oneida County, N.Y., cracked wise and complained about poor equipment as Antwan Cater lay unconscious in a drug-induced seizure. His father has filed a lawsuit in the case. By ...

While Ramon Eduardo Contreras-Hernandez was detained at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Batavia earlier this year, he regularly saw attorneys visiting their clients, ...

The Rikers Island jail complex, a notorious and decrepit institution sitting on 413 acres in the East River, was slated for closure well before New York City became the country’s epicenter of the ...

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 ...