Despite a growing number of detainees, the city’s jail oversight board rejected a request to expand dorm capacity — leaving ...

Angela Wells claims racism and retaliation at work. With a hearing set for 2026, she seeks justice after facing threats and unfair treatment.

A former New York state psychologist admitted to sexually assaulting multiple teenagers while working at a juvenile detention ...

A new state law that took effect this week authorizes emergency medical services crews to provide care or transportation to ...

In a court order this week, Judge Daniel Lynch wrote that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision ...

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were ...

At least a third of New York counties told the Legal Action Center that they currently provide some form of Medicaid ...

A State law sharply limiting solitary confinement in the prisons was suspended during prison guards’ wildcat strike earlier ...

In a first person essay, Derek Carter narrates his time volunteering as a peer counselor at his former South Carolina prison.

It’s been more than a year since Virginia’s General Assembly voted to create an office that would investigate claims against ...

Maryland’s youth defendants are “languishing in custody while the wheels of adult courts slowly grind,” writes Vincent ...

The fatal beatings in recent months of inmates Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi by prison staff, as well as the March wildcat strike by thousands of corrections officers statewide, have shone a harsh ...