The state comptroller's office found New York paid about $1.3 billion in overtime costs last year. The biggest draw came from the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, which spent ...

After years of planning, a new jail bed unit in Bellevue Hospital for seriously ill detainees from Rikers Island has been ...

WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) — A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large ...

State agencies paid out about $1.3 billion in overtime costs in 2024, marking a 10% increase over the prior year’s $1.2 ...

Why I Blew the Whistle on Extreme Confinement on Rikers Island Social worker Justyna Rzewinski saw people with mental illness “deadlocked” in their cells for months without sunlight, human contact — ...

New York correction officers pay docked for every day on strike COs to be considered AWOL, lose state-sponsored health insurance for participating in “illegal job action.” ...

The family of Win Rozario, a 19-year-old Queens man shot dead by police in March 2024, sued the city Monday, alleging the officers violated a range of NYPD regulations and forced the deadly confron… ...

City officials have now named both men who died in Department of Correction custody, just hours apart from each other in separate incidents Friday. A 56-year-old man died Friday afternoon while on ...

ALBANY, N.Y. – During a recent floor debate in the New York State Assembly, Assemblyman Brian Maher, R,C–Walden, called for the state to stop sidelining correction officers and ensure they ha… ...

A knife-wielding maniac who stabbed two Manhattan court officers with a knife – coming within a half-inch of one of their carotid arteries – has a notorious history of targeting law ...