A federal judge overseeing New York City’s jails took Rikers Island out of the city’s control on Tuesday, ordering that an outside official be appointed to...
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll find out about the latest court appearance by the music mogul Sean Combs, who is known as Puff Daddy and...
A man accused of stealing power tools from a hardware store died in a holding cell at a Brooklyn courthouse just before his scheduled arraignment on...
More than 2,000 state prison officers who failed to return to work after three weeks of wildcat strikes have been fired and will be barred from...
For the second time in three months, the office of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, said it was recusing itself from investigating the death of...
New York state authorities and a union representing corrections officers have reached a deal to end the most widespread strikes in the state’s prisons in more...
A sick man was released from a New York prison on Friday after suing the state for keeping him long past his parole date. Steve Coleman,...
Ernest Drucker, a pioneering public-health researcher who approached drug addiction with compassion, invigorated needle-exchange programs to stem the AIDS epidemic and diagnosed the destructive impact of...
Although they were later recaptured, the prison break shook Israelis and thrilled Palestinians. Israelis saw Mr. Zubeidi’s escape as a chilling security breach with the potential...
Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday in exchange for four soldiers who were being held hostage by Hamas. Dozens of the prisoners had been serving...
