In a mixed ruling Friday, a federal judge shot down a challenge to ICE’s courthouse arrests while also making it harder for ...

The outside official who will be granted broad powers by a federal judge to manage City’s jails should be someone with ...

Mark David Chapman has been denied parole for the 14th time, nearly 45 years after he shot and killed John Lennon outside his ...

Former Judge Barry Cozier, who served 20 years on the bench, called the right to counsel “the most fundamental right a ...

The man who killed John Lennon outside the former Beatle’s Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a ...

Hong Kong’s correctional chief has written to the New York Post, saying that an op-ed published by the newspaper contained ...

Mark G. Whalen pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other charges in Erie County Court on Tuesday and is expected to plead guilty in Niagara County Court in the coming days for the November 2024 ...

Public sector hiring in New York City is on the rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic. Unions, lawmakers and employees say it’s ...

The New York state prison system has been running on fumes since its corrections officers walked off the job in February. The three-week wildcat strike ended with the prison agency firing some 15 ...

The attorney who represents Adam Lafferty’s mother in what could be the continuation of her late son’s federal civil rights ...

What’s the difference between prisons and jails? Jails are local facilities that mostly house people awaiting trial and those sentenced to a year or less for relatively minor crimes. Prisons ...

Carlos Cruz, 43, sentenced to five years for arson, died while waiting more than two months to be transferred to state prison ...