Johnny Hincapie, recently released on bail to await a possible new trial for his alleged role in the 1990 Brian Watkins murder, spoke about his experiences in prison and in…
New York State’s prisons have shed a quarter of their inmates in the past 15 years, but the ranks of correction officers have thinned by a substantially smaller amount. Does…
In the wake of the killing of Officer Randolph Holder, Mayor de Blasio called for bail decisions to take public safety into account. But Sen. Michael Gianaris is still hoping…
Judge Eduardo Padro turned down Johnny Hincapie’s request for a finding of actual innocence but said Hincapie’s lawyers had met the threshold to get their client’s conviction tossed. READ…
The mayor has limited it. The Council is going to start paying it on some defendants’ behalf. Now the state’s chief judge is taking unprecedented steps to rein it…
The NYPD inspector general was one of the most divisive issues in the 2013 mayoral campaign. To date the first man to hold that post has been fairly quiet. That…
The practice of “violence interruption” has spurred a lot of interest as a way to prevent bloodshed on city streets. A former gang member who leads one such effort says…
Even as defense lawyers and other advocates say that efforts to reduce the rate of pre-trial imprisonment are long overdue, they’re also expressing reservations about the de Blasio administration plan…
Gay Americans’ arduous quest for civil rights claimed a transformative victory Friday in a Supreme Court decision backing marriage equality. Here’s how New York City’s leaders reacted.
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