Santa Cruz County Sheriff Chris Clark has floated the idea of a new “mental health jail,” pointing to the high number of incarcerated people on psychiatric medication. But jail is not treatment, and ...
Unlike his two predecessors, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has no hope of avoiding a hard time with the Rikers Island jails: He faces ...
Mayor Mamdani is now running the city, but soon he and the Department of Correction will not be running Rikers Island, the ...
Rikers Island is in the spotlight after a guard's suspension following a detainee's death and a lawsuit over another ...
The report lands at what the monitor describes as a “critical and uncertain” moment for the jail and Department of Correction ...
Aramis Furse, 32, was found unresponsive in his jail cell in December. A federal monitor says guards routinely fail to tour ...
The gang held a Huntington Station neighborhood under siege for years by funding violence through prostitution and sex trafficking, prosecutors said.
Three 12-year-olds and an 11-year-old were charged with felonies in connection with an assault that left a 51-year-old man ...