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Legal victories by LGBTQ people and youth of color face rollbacks amid the rise of new, reactionary sheriffs.

Months after Mayor Adams raised concerns about plans to close the Big Apple’s largest jail complex for four smaller ones in Kew Gardens, Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, City Council

Since 2014, at least 120 people held in city jails have died while in custody or shortly after being released on medical grounds – but some of those dea...

Captain Terry Henry was a correction officer in October 2015 when he and 11 other uniformed staffers allegedly did not act to save detainee Richard Gonzalez.

Investigations of detainees’ deaths are buried for years behind bureaucratic walls, families charge.

In an analysis of the 10 most-populous jurisdictions in New York, most departments in charge of pretrial services aren't increasing funding, even though thousands more people are now awaiting trial from home. Officials in Erie County said they cut other parts of their budgets to meet the demands of bail reform.

While bail reform has meant that thousands of New Yorkers have been able to avoid jail time, many communities have not increased funding for pretrial support systems, yet funding for jails remains high.

Calling the move from the current Genesee County Jail to the one that will be built on West Main Street Road over the next couple years “an enormous task,” Sheriff William Sheron today said he has complete confidence in the “transition team” he has assembled to lead the way. Sheron emerged from a three-day training of the five correction officers at the Sheriff’s Office on

Jail funding is as high as ever, even though there are far fewer people behind bars in New York.

Hell has broken loose in city jails on Rikers Island as inmates run wild and guards fear for their lives. It’s another massive fail by Mayor Bill de Blasio and