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NEW YORK (AP) — Two years into New York’s bold quest to eliminate pretrial...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two years into New York’s bold quest to eliminate pretrial incarceration for most crimes, state officials are considering abandoning some bail reforms — and locking up

New York City’s fiscal watchdog issued a report Tuesday refuting the claims of police leaders, unions and some politicians that bail reform is driving crime...

Student members of the pro bono project have facilitated the early release of five North Carolina men in the past two years.

Brooklyn: As a middle-income worker with no corporate card, no expense account, and a neither-wheeling-nor-dealing job that will never woo “business travelers” to the city, I am tired of being told it is my civic duty to return to Manhattan to put my money into the NYC economy (“Get back,” editorial, Feb. 15).

Homelessness, safe housing, police brutality and racial injustice – does Bill de Blasio’s replacement have the policies to fix them?

COVID infection rates for inmates in New York City's jails is now 17.21 percent, nearly double the amount from the previous week.

Staten Island Autonomous Zone Bar Owner Wont Be Prosecuted For Allegedly Driving Into Sheriffs Deputy arrow Macs Public House co-owner Danny Presti attends a press conference outside his closed bar in Staten Island in early December. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP/Shutterstock The co-owner of a Staten Island pub infamous for defying city and state COVID-19 health restrictions has avoided felony charges after he allegedly drove into a sheriffs deputy who was trying to detain hi...