Will this week’s budget hearing provide insight into the state’s plan to salvage its safety net?
A yearslong staffing crisis at state-run facilities has taken its toll on incarcerated kids and the workers who watch over them.
The bill would dissolve contracts that allow federal immigration authorities to use county jails, but would leave more informal collaboration with local law enforcement untouched.
New York State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors. Still, they remained on the job, an investigation found.
Nine months after the prison guard strike, incarcerated people are being denied early release after not completing programming that they don’t have access to.
Some officials and residents in Cheektowaga want a broader overhaul of their cops’ interactions with immigration agents.
State regulators ignored FBI evidence of horse drug purchases for years. That was a “huge failing,” a key assemblymember said.
On criminal justice, there were notable omissions in the governor’s address.
Our investigation into conviction integrity units reveals that they reinforce a broken system. Help us expand on this reporting.
Here’s what our reporters will be watching for during Governor Kathy Hochul’s agenda-setting address that will kick off state budget negotiations.
Office of Children and Family Services facilities keep youth in small cells for days or weeks at a time, violating state regulations, the suit claims.
New York racing regulators have failed to take action against drug buyers for years, even after federal law enforcement gave them clear evidence of illegal activity.
The feds gave New York key evidence on horse racing’s largest doping ring. State regulators have done nothing with it for years.
One hundred and forty laws that almost were.
The letters paint a picture of a CIU process rife with roadblocks, especially for applicants who didn’t have lawyers.
The state plans to ask a court to dismiss some 500 prison sexual assault lawsuits for not strictly abiding by filing requirements.
The murder has led to more tumult than New York’s prison system has seen since the Attica prison uprising over five decades ago.
Guards demanded body scanners to cut down on contraband. Now they’re turning visitors away over their hygiene and medical supplies.
In at least one case, police may have violated a state court ruling prohibiting local law enforcement from conducting civil immigration enforcement.
The investigator, who did not believe the teen, faced little punishment, illustrating the different ways that officers in New York State are disciplined for misconduct.