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Great Meadow and Sullivan prisons are slated to shut down in November. The state could close up to three more over the next year.
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More counties are turning to private corporations to run medical care in jails. The companies have deadly track records.
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Joseph Moran has long faced accusations of dishonesty — even from fellow officers — records show.
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He hopes the settlement will lead to reforms in New York prisons, where three-quarters of trans people say corrections officers have inappropriately touched or sexually assaulted them.
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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.
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The Senate will consider Daniel Martuscello III’s bid to run New York’s prison and parole agency. His supporters point to his decades of experience. His opponents say that’s the problem.
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After New York’s top court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction, state lawmakers want to let prosecutors bring evidence from past uncharged sexual assaults.
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The police department’s PR team has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.
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The small Catholic university banned Students for Justice in Palestine in 2016. Amid protests and crackdowns, the move has become increasingly popular.
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The journalists said the arrests interfered with their ability to document the police raid at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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New York Focus was on the scene as cops shoved, kettled, and chased students at City College, the second campus where the NYPD razed a Gaza solidarity encampment Tuesday.
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The mayor and the police blamed “outside agitators” for campus protests. Student journalists reported what they saw.
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After DA Sandra Doorley berated a police officer, Hochul referred her to a commission that is yet to become active — and lacks the authority to issue discipline.
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Previously unreleased disciplinary files expose officers who beat, slap, and pepper spray the residents they’re supposed to protect. Most are back at work within a month.
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Local regulations haven’t kept up with the rollout of new surveillance tech. Some reformers see Washington as their best hope.
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Stark disparities in access to life-saving medication for opioid addiction persist between facilities — and racial groups.
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Referencing a New York Focus story, Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas introduced legislation to prevent public agencies from naming the medically discredited condition in their reports.
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New York Focus has published thousands of pages of county jail oversight records. Browse them in our database.
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New York’s incarcerated population has been declining for decades. Why is it so hard for prison closures to keep pace?
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Some Court of Appeals judges are far more likely to grant requests to hear appeals than others, a New York Focus analysis found.