Despite having a new mayor — and some renewed optimism — the likelihood of significant changes to the Chinatown jail plan ...

A Black man filed a civil rights lawsuit in December 2025, accusing Department of Correction (DOC) officers of sodomizing him.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani directed city agencies to make plans to comply with rules governing health and safety at the facilities, ...

Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger will be the state's first female governor. She is still digesting that fact and what ...

In a surprise shake-up of his senior staff, Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara has replaced two sitting deputy chiefs and ordered a department restructuring that consolidates several specialized ...

It was standing room only at the “Annual Unity in Action Holiday Celebration and Award Ceremony,” on Sunday, December 21st, ...

Although many of them had criminal records, most people who died in custody had not been convicted of the crime they were in ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day as mayor of New York City. They were aimed at ...

The Correction Conundrum An astounding 48 people died while in the custody of the city’s Department of Correction during the ...

New York City is crazy. But I guess it would be unreasonable to put over 8 million people in one place and expect things to ...

For McDowell, then 18, the letter felt like proof that the truth would eventually come out. He handed it to his ...

Emel McDowell was in a New York City jail when a guard yelled out his name. A single envelope slid through the metal bars into his cell. He stared at the return address in disbelief.