A state lawmaker wants to triple the rate local jails are paid to house inmates who are waiting to be transferred to a state ...

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.

Jonaiki Martinez-Estrella got a break when an appellate court overturned his first-degree murder conviction — but ultimately ...

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 ...

New York City’s child population fell by 17 percent between 2020 and 2023 alone. That could help explain some of the difference Dannhauser cites between his administration and the previous decade.

It was an intense band of strong storms that left some major flooding behind across portions of New York State this week. The summer weather has already started and the heat and humidity are here. It ...