Former Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s resignation broke a conservative lock on the Court of Appeals.

The policy and its sudden reversal will be among Acting Commissioner Anthony Annucci’s last acts.

New York prisons may have effectively banned journalism behind bars.

The governor’s team coordinated meetings between her failed chief judge nominee and Senate Republicans in the days before a key committee vote, emails show.

Formerly incarcerated “peers” offer drug counseling to people in county jails — when they can get in.

A new bill would subject the state prison system to independent oversight for sexual assault complaints. The Senate has two weeks to bring it to a floor vote.

Annucci has been characterized as an institutionalist loyal to the prison system above all else — even, at times, the law.

Andrew Cuomo named Anthony Annucci acting commissioner of New York prisons back in 2013. Now, someone his agency incarcerates is trying to take him out.

Budget legislation released Monday night includes eight pages of bail law markups — significantly more than the governor announced last week. A vote is imminent.

Police will receive photos of defendants with curfews and report alleged violations to District Attorney Melinda Katz.

The confirmations of Rowan Wilson and Caitlin Halligan may reverse the Court of Appeals’ rightward trend.

The confluence of rising commissary prices, stagnant wages, and a package ban are making basic items inaccessible.

A new legal challenge takes aim at the New York prison department for locking hundreds of people up in solitary over offenses that should be exempt.

With budget talks at a stalemate, Hochul offered the legislature new draft language on bail. It would accomplish largely the same result as her previous plan: a dramatic expansion in judges’ ability to set bail.

The governor buried policies in her budget proposal that would give police and prosecutors more leverage over people with opioid addictions.

Hochul has a month to nominate one of the seven candidates to be New York’s next chief judge, after the state Senate rejected her first pick last month.

So-called “de-escalation units” were supposed to help people cool off after violent encounters. But months after their implementation, Rikers staff still use the old brutal methods.

Nearly a year and a half after they were supposed to fix their system, jail officials still don’t know how long they’re keeping people in notorious intake pens.

After months of ignoring reforms, the corrections department published new rules. They look a lot like the old rules.

The governor proposed an outsized boost worth tens of millions for prosecutors — drawing comparisons to New York’s history of public defense neglect.