New York prisons have illegally sent at least 1,100 people to solitary confinement for infractions that aren’t eligible for the punishment, a New York Focus analysis has found.
A one-year extension could be the prison contractor’s last, ending a 15-year run.
A much-debated moratorium wouldn’t affect any crypto mining projects under development, but an accompanying environmental study could bring unwelcome scrutiny.
Rikers staff repeatedly altered records to extend the clock on a 24-hour time limit for holding people in notorious intake cells.
When disabled litigants who can’t to come to court in person request virtual appearances, they often don’t hear back.
Two years after the state banned plastic bags, many New York City businesses are still distributing them with little fear of consequences.
The city announced key proposed rules, making progress but also leaving a massive loophole unaddressed, our columnist writes.
Long Island and Westchester build housing at some of the lowest rates of any suburban area in the country, fueling high rents and home prices across the region.
A landmark solitary confinement reform law created a new, “rehabilitative” type of isolation unit. In practice, they’re often little different from the solitary units they were meant to replace.
A little-known federal initiative, the 340B Drug Pricing Program, supports services that wouldn’t otherwise get reimbursed.
Renewable energy developers are hungry to build in New York, but staffing at the bodies charged with managing the process hasn’t kept up.
1199 SIEU says it wants to end 24-hour shifts - but it has opposed city and state bills that would do so, and some question the sincerity of its objections.
Lawmakers banned solitary confinement for people with disabilities. But the state prison agency has crafted its own policies.
The ruling, which isn’t binding on other judges but will surely be noted by them, was based on the 2019 bail reform law’s requirement that judges consider defendants’ ability to afford bail.
The approval will create hundreds of units of both affordable and market rate housing and has sparked debate in progressive circles over how to approach private development.
After a private equity firm purchased an upstate power plant, thousands of gallons of oil spilled into Lake Ontario. It’s part of a troubling pattern.
Five months after a law to scale back solitary confinement went into effect, a majority of the New York prison system’s solitary population had been held there for longer than the law permits.
The mayor and major city unions plan to press the City Council to clear a path for a privatized Medicare plan for retired city workers.
The prison agency has stonewalled lawmakers’ requests for information justifying the policy.
This summer’s heat and drought have driven New York farmers’ input costs up and their yields down, straining their finances and further pushing up food prices.
Prison officials had already seen his genitals three times. But the superintendent ordered a more invasive exam, the lawsuit alleges. (Note: detailed descriptions.)
The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act turbocharges the market for electric cars at the expense of other forms of transit. A New York bill aims to help e-bikes catch up.
Janet DiFiore may have gotten a say in picking her interim successor, boosting a judge who has never once voted against her.
Janet DiFiore may have gotten a say in picking her interim successor, boosting a judge who has never once voted against her.
Many judges have ignored a 2016 mandate from New York’s top court that parents must be allowed to present evidence in their defense before they lose custody of their kids.
The Monroe County legislature’s president, Sabrina LaMar, has denigrated public defenders and shut them out of the now-eight-month-long process to appoint the next head of their office.
The ban had helped the local sheriff rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit from detainee video and phone call fees.
A plan to move a family medicine clinic in a low-income Bronx neighborhood has sparked backlash from patients and staff.
The cancellation of a proposed cost-saving health plan after retired city workers sued could drain a special fund City Hall and unions use to pay employee benefits.
The deal has been two years in the making, but it’s been a secret for most of that time.
The partnership split homeless advocates: Some welcomed the additional dollars, arguing “more is better,” while others predicted they would function mainly to keep people off corporate property.
Enormous pollution cuts and tens of thousands of jobs depend on how Adams implements New York City’s landmark climate law in the coming months.
Heat kills hundreds of New Yorkers every summer - but health experts say a “cold weather bias” keeps policymakers from prioritizing the issue.
With the plan tied up in court, insurers Elevance Health and Empire BlueCross BlueShield pulled out of a controversial deal to switch retired city workers to privately run health insurance.
For housing advocates, getting the legislature to expand the right to a court hearing before evictions was one thing. Getting judges to implement it is another.
The court’s last term included a slew of cases rolling back defendants’ rights. Progressives hope to reset that trajectory.
Governor Hochul’s pick to replace the resigning Court of Appeals Chief Judge could break up the conservative bloc that controls the court—or entrench it.
Officers trained for the NYPD’s new Neighborhood Safety Teams average nearly double the number of substantiated civilian complaints than the NYPD as a whole.
A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in its most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police.
ConEd wants to jack up electric bills by 10 percent, and gas by 15 percent. Here’s what that would pay for.