Family members of Rikers Island inmates who committed suicide or died from other causes while in solitary confinement pleaded with...
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A St. Louis-based tech nonprofit is training inmates in computer programming while they're still incarcerated to give them a shot...
"All three are wanted on Escape charges," the sheriff's office said, identifying the three men as Tobias W. Carr, Johnny...
Since March 2020, the federal Bureau of Prisons has placed more than 36,000 inmates on home confinement, according to the...
One of those put to death was Yasutaka Fujishiro, 65, who murdered seven people including his aunt and neighbors in...
Julie Green's The Last Supper is currently on view at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Wash. There are 800...
230 detainees will be temporarily transferred to the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and the Taconic Correctional Facility in Westchester. Both...
“The current conditions experienced at Rikers are inhumane, unconstitutional and a public health crisis,” they wrote. “We believe federal funds...
N.Y. Gov. Hochul orders release of 191 Rikers Island inmates amid ‘hell on earth’ conditions at jail
Meantime, living conditions have worsened to the degree that state legislators who toured the jail this week said they witnessed...
Stephen Levine was born in 1942 in Pittsburgh. He wanted to be a doctor from the time he was a...