CANY, authorized by state law to independently monitor prison conditions, based its recommendations on data from 19 ...

Black people in New York state prisons were 38% more likely to receive a misbehavior report compared to white people.

Charizma Jones’s family expected her to return home from Rikers Island by the holiday season, says their lawyer MK Kaishian. Instead, a Board of Correction (BOC) report released on Dec. 30 expanded on ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday the availability of up to $2 million to expand resiliency and suicide prevention efforts among military veterans and uniformed personnel, including law ...

Federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday, Jan. 8, that Ghislaine Barrientos, a former corrections officer, has pleaded guilty to bribery in exchange for smuggling cocaine into Rikers Island jail.

The CARES UP initiative, administered by the New York Office of Mental Health’s Suicide Prevention Center, will provide ...

New York Republicans floated a bill Wednesday to hand out $10 million per year in federal grants to states and localities to ...