While announcing the restoration of some child care services that had been targeted for cuts, the mayor’s plan projects that many agency budgets will see bigger reductions than earlier predicted.
More on City Limits investigation into sexual abuse involving male guards and female inmates in New York State prisons–and the national push to eliminate prison sex abuse.
After media revelations of abuse at homes for the developmentally disabled, the Assembly is considering a law to improve employee screening. But some contemplate broader change, like getting the state…
DOCS says that misunderstandings about pat-frisks might explain some of the sexual misconduct allegations its inmates have made against guards. Some evidence suggests, however, that the problems in New York’s…
For at least 35 years, New York State legal advocates, prison officials and unions have wrestled over how to protect female inmates from sexual abuse when male officers guard them.
In 1999, an officer and an inmate at Manhattan’s Bayview Correctional Facility fell in love and started having sex, with consequences that reverberate today.
Several New York State prisons ranked high in a recent federal survey of inmates reporting staff sexual abuse. A City Limits investigation finds that sexual misconduct in New York’s prisons…
In this month’s issue of City Limits magazine, we investigate staff sexual abuse of female inmates in state prisons. In this chapter, a look at the prison officers implicated in…
Spent fuel rods are at the center of concerns about the nuclear plant just north of the city—and are a factor at several other plants in the tri-state area.
She came to the city for a concert and never left. Now she’s part of the city’s complex culture of street homelessness—where cardboard signs are gold, and you’re either a…
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