In 2019, Broome County promised an addiction treatment program in its jail. Two years later, the program is a “farce,” one advocate said.

“People in prison deserve healthcare, and this is healthcare.” Legislators push to offer treatment for drug addiction in jails and prisons

In a striking sign of activists’ success, most candidates running in the June election for DA say they would not prosecute cases involving consensual sex work.

Amid an ongoing union election at the Queens indigent defense law firm, two outspoken union supporters were fired without warning.

Three candidates in the June election say they would not join the association of state DAs, which has fought measures such as bail reform.

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.