Will New York Stop Letting Prisons Police Themselves?
A new bill would subject the state prison system to independent oversight for sexual assault complaints. The Senate has two weeks to bring it to a floor vote.

“It’s no surprise that incarcerated individuals who have been raped and sexually abused while in custody have nowhere to turn.”
“OSI is a sham.”
The governor’s team coordinated meetings between her failed chief judge nominee and Senate Republicans in the days before a key committee vote, emails show.
Formerly incarcerated "peers" offer drug counseling to people in county jails — when they can get in.
Annucci has been characterized as an institutionalist loyal to the prison system above all else — even, at times, the law.
Biofuels, hydrogen, carbon capture, and nuclear: These are some of the technologies that will be on the table as New York weighs how to clean up its grid over the next 17 years.
While the governor awaits guidance from the federal government, thousands of undocumented New Yorkers can’t afford to go to the doctor.
National Fuel customers paid for a website directing New Yorkers to oppose electrification mandates, documents show.