The Queens Detention Facility is New York City’s only privately run detention facility. It houses over 200 federal detainees for the US Marshals Service.
As the governor and state lawmakers wrestle with weighty issues like congestion pricing and marijuana legalization during the state budget process, hope has slightly dimmed that they will address the…
A report says complicated backstory of the city-state Close to Home program—and its early success–are a model for youth-justice systems around the country.
In the next two decades, New Yorkers 65 and older will account for 18 percent of the city’s population, according to the AARP. And they’re going to need a lot…
The Parole Board is missing commissioners and staff, most parole applications get shot down and hundreds who have served long sentences have no hope of getting out.
There’s a Neighborhood Advisory Council in each of the four boroughs where the de Blasio administration plans to build a new jail facility to facilitate the closing of Rikers Island.…
The judge—who seemed to signal solidarity with the jogger’s family, is related to two assistant DAs and sided with the prosecution on key rulings in the Chanel Lewis trial—has had…
When facing the possible loss of their children, New York state parents have the right to a lawyer only when a case moves to court. Even then some counties fail…
ACS says it has a plan to deal with the rising incidence of abuse incidents involving kids in foster care. But making it work could prove to be a challenge.
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