Recently Jailed New Yorkers Struggle When Dumped on Street With No ID
Leaving Rikers Island, many former detainees can’t rent apartments or get jobs - because the city lost their ID.
Leaving Rikers Island, many former detainees can’t rent apartments or get jobs - because the city lost their ID.
A week after incarcerated journalist Sara Kielly published an article criticizing the prison system for its solitary confinement practices, officers ransacked her cell.
A landmark reform law was meant to overhaul carceral punishment in New York. Getting prisons to follow it has been an uphill battle.
Carol Shapiro spent two years trying to reform the state Board of Parole. Little has changed.
The disclosures included over a dozen missing or incomplete reports covering a period of more than four years.
Pomerantz LLP attorneys have donated to comptroller candidates for decades, highlighting a loophole in rules meant to keep government contractors from spending in city elections.
Here are the five topics we’re watching with the elections less than three weeks away.
A newly discovered 80-page housing package would have included good cause eviction, but legislators were dissuaded by Kathy Hochul’s opposition.
For tenants in the first upstate city to adopt rent stabilization, benefiting from the law’s basic protections is an uphill battle.
Advocates charge that New York’s restrictions for sex offense registrants are “vague, expansive, and unnecessary.” On Tuesday, they filed a federal lawsuit to strike them down.