First-time offenders might receive community service, but penalties may be severe.

Big Apple Connect, the mayor’s flagship free internet service for public housing residents, is quietly being used to expand the NYPD’s real-time, remote surveillance. Here’s what we still don’t know about the clandestine program.

The Adams administration is using its flagship broadband program to give police real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds — without telling anyone.

There were 351 shooting incidents, 413 shooting victims, and 149 murders during the first half of the year.

Short-staffed since a strike this winter, the prison system is keeping people locked in their boiling cells and dorms for upwards of 21 hours a day.

The prison agency’s security ranks are 4,700 corrections officers and sergeants short of what it says it needs to run every program and housing area effectively.

The state’s efforts around reentry healthcare have stalled and face an uphill battle under the Trump administration.

The prison agency has suspended solitary confinement restrictions since a corrections officers strike in February.

Sierra Johnson is one of nearly 1,600 women who filed claims under the Adult Survivors Act alleging sexual abuse in state prisons.

The bill package will now head to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk, and she could either sign, veto, or scale it back through amendments to the legislation.

Documents show that six county sheriffs’ offices and two state agencies have recently included excited delirium in their training.

The Legislative Correspondents Alumni Association recognized Chris Gelardi with its award for the year’s best state government reporting — the second year in a row that Focus has earned the honor.

As courts buckle under hundreds of thousands of unresolved cases, a quiet fight is erupting in Albany over how — and where — to add more judges.

Previously unpublished photos and video show how protesters set up encampments, burned police vehicles, and marched almost daily. Today, the NYPD operates much as it did before the movement.

A Monroe County judge stripped the PAB of its power to investigate and report incidents of police misconduct.

The embattled prison chief took an optimistic tack, but family members of those killed by prison guards have little faith that reforms will be meaningful.

For 20 years, the state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members — and they’re feeding it to Donald Trump’s administration.

The lawsuit reveals that DOCCS is considering pausing solitary confinement law on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and any other day designated by the commissioner.

Here are the key findings from the second installment of our investigation into New York’s conviction integrity units.

A Queens court’s failure to reveal a romance has sparked accusations of bias.