Amid dramatic spikes in drug overdoses and HIV cases, legislators and public health professionals push for New York to decriminalize sterile syringes.

A wave of legal aid attorneys are joining the labor movement. But bosses say it’s bad for business and the unions just want to collect their dues.

The office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor is on the chopping block in Manhattan’s 2021 DA race.

Most of the state Supreme Court candidates who won in November had donated to the parties and party bosses that nominated them, a New York Focus investigation found.

As New York prisons face a second wave of COVID-19 cases, one incarcerated person tells New York Focus they haven’t fixed the problems that led to the first.

Incarcerated people have one week left to claim their stimulus checks. But many say their prisons aren’t providing the paperwork.

Leaving Rikers Island, many former detainees can’t rent apartments or get jobs - because the city lost their ID.

Defendants awaiting trial were supposed to be offered a more affordable form of bail. But some judges have set the price sky-high on bonds, leaving many behind bars.