New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed a formerly incarcerated man as the new Commissioner of the city’s Department ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul proposes another $535 million to keep National Guard in state prisons amid staffing shortage.

NEW YORK -- New York City's juvenile jails are extremely violent and unsafe, the result of a deeply ingrained culture of violence in which guards routinely violate constitutional rights of teenage ...

Takeout meals helped cool tensions inside a Western New York prison, despite viral claims of “Uber Eats for inmates,” according to The Citizen. A pilot incentive at Wende Correctional Facility lets ...

"Not only should the administration strive to make New York City a place where all people can meet their basic needs, but Mamdani's team must also work to bring alternatives to incarceration to scale, ...

In 2019, the New York City Council and then-mayor Bill de Blasio set a deadline for closing the jail facilities on Rikers Island. As part of that plan, the council authorized the construction of four ...

This article was published in partnership with Caught, the new podcast on juvenile justice from WNYC Studios and the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal-justice ...

Deadly stabbings, “barbaric” living conditions, and maggots in the food: this is the state of the notorious New York prison that ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro now calls home. Maduro and ...