After homicides behind bars and strikes by guards, Gov. Kathy Hochul made changes to New York’s budget. That did not satisfy ...

The pool of Nassau County employees making more than $300,000 nearly doubled last year, after Suffolk County saw a similar ...

A new Board of Correction report has backed up allegations detailed in October by the Daily News — that jail staff are ...

Two inmates in Department of Correction custody died within an hour and a half of each on Rikers Island on Friday afternoon.

The family of a Queens teen whom police shot and killed in front of his mother and brother while he was experiencing a mental ...

Ms. MacDonough also rejected a G.O.P. plan to push some of the costs of nutrition assistance, formerly known as SNAP, onto ...

Landor, an adherent of the Rastafari religion, even carried a copy of a ruling by the appeals court in another inmate’s case ...

A 20-year-old man was arrested Friday after he allegedly groped a 12-year-old girl near a busy intersection in West New York, ...

The USA has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Shelves of books and reams of media exposés have revealed the inhumanity of American jails, prisons, and immigration detention ...

FBI Director Kash Patel is scheduled to help kick off the National Sheriff’s Association weeklong conference in Fort ...

President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have repeatedly called for masks at protests to be banned and for protesters ...