Sweeping Salazar, Souffrant Forrest Bill Targets Rogue Prisons and Jails
The legislation cites multiple New York Focus investigations in its attempt to safeguard the rights of incarcerated people.
The legislation cites multiple New York Focus investigations in its attempt to safeguard the rights of incarcerated people.
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.
Years of shortages have led to a staggering problem across the state, with few solutions on the horizon.
Here are the five topics we’re watching with the elections less than three weeks away.