Incarceration

Governor Hochul wears a dark navy suit and holds a black folder. A man is on her right in a grey suit and her left a woman in a dark green jacket. The red brick prison entrance reads Marcy Correctional Facility behind them.

Upstate Prison Staffers Charged in Beating Death of Robert Brooks

Feb. 20, 2025, 2:17 p.m.Feb. 20, 2025, 6:43 p.m.

Brooks, 43, was repeatedly punched and kicked by guards who held him down on a medical bed inside an upstate prison on Dec. 9.

Then-Conviction Review Unit head Charles Linehan speaks in court as Sheldon Thomas is exonerated.

Courts

Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Review Chief Heading to Private Practice

Feb. 10, 2025, 5:00 a.m.Feb. 12, 2025, 4:51 p.m.

Charles Linehan is teaming up with Karen Newirth, a onetime defense attorney, to launch a firm focused on wrongful conviction cases.

Immigration officers arrested people in The Bronx during an early-morning raid.

Incarceration

One Hundred NYC Immigrants Arrested in Week One of Trump ICE Raids

Feb. 5, 2025, 6:40 p.m.Feb. 6, 2025, 9:05 a.m.

Little is known about where many of those arrested are being held, and immigration lawyers tell THE CITY they have had difficulty locating and ing those detained.

Barbed-wire fences surrounded a jail complex on Rivers Island.

Mental Health

Scores of People Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial Are Stuck on Rikers Island

Feb. 3, 2025, 5:05 a.m.Feb. 3, 2025, 2:26 p.m.

State psych wards for seriously mentally ill people are so full that growing numbers are held in city jails instead.

The Manhattan skyline loomed over a jail complex on Rikers Island.

Courts

Rikers Island Takeover Plan Due Friday But Two Sides Are at Odds Over ‘Receiver’ Details

Jan. 23, 2025, 11:57 a.m.Jan. 23, 2025, 11:57 a.m.

City officials and public defenders have not been able to reach an agreement nearly four months after a federal judge ordered them to figure out receivership of the jails system.

Gov. Kathy Hochul walks out of Marcy Correctional Facility with barbed wire behind her. She walks with a man in a grey suit on the right and a woman in a beige suit on the left.

Incarceration

Former Prisoners Say Deadly Robert Brooks Beating Is Sadly Routine

Jan. 3, 2025, 4:47 p.m.Jan. 3, 2025, 4:47 p.m.

Those that have been in the state pen and their lawyers say “what is most unusual about the beatdown of Mr. Brooks is that it was captured on video.”

An aerial look at the sprawling jail complex on Rikers Island.

Jails

Federal Judge Pushes for Receiver Takeover of Rikers Island

Nov. 27, 2024, 11:10 a.m.Nov. 27, 2024, 1:52 p.m.

All the parties in the decade-old 'Nunez case' must now decide on the parameters and qualifications of a third-party overseer.

Workers continued construction on a new jail complex next to Manhattan criminal court.

Jails

Rikers Island Shutdown Plan Progresses With Construction Firms for New Manhattan Jail

Nov. 19, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Nov. 21, 2024, 10:50 a.m.

The selection of Tutor Perini and O & G Industries to design and build the White Street lockup represents a final piece in the borough-jails puzzle.

A recreation field at the Horizon Juvenile Center in the Mott Haven was visible from the 2/5 train.

Juvenile Justice

Overwhelmed Juvenile Detention Centers Fail to Curb Violence and Misconduct, City Watchdog Finds

Oct. 24, 2024, 9:19 p.m.Oct. 25, 2024, 11:30 a.m.

The city’s child welfare agency said the report doesn’t reflect the “current improved status” in its two youth lock-ups.

Lloyd Haynes poses for a portrait in front of the Barclays Center.

Courts

Five Years After Leaving Rikers, Lloyd Haynes Is Still Fighting City Jails for Answers

Sept. 6, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Sept. 5, 2024, 7:08 p.m.

Freed from Rikers Island after THE CITY’s 2019 reporting on his medical plight, the Brooklyn man accuses the Department of Correction of dragging its feet on his negligence lawsuit.

Incarceration

Upstate Prison Staffers Charged in Beating Death of Robert Brooks

Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Review Chief Heading to Private Practice

One Hundred NYC Immigrants Arrested in Week One of Trump ICE Raids

Scores of People Deemed Unfit to Stand Trial Are Stuck on Rikers Island

Rikers Island Takeover Plan Due Friday But Two Sides Are at Odds Over ‘Receiver’ Details

Former Prisoners Say Deadly Robert Brooks Beating Is Sadly Routine

Federal Judge Pushes for Receiver Takeover of Rikers Island

Rikers Island Shutdown Plan Progresses With Construction Firms for New Manhattan Jail

Overwhelmed Juvenile Detention Centers Fail to Curb Violence and Misconduct, City Watchdog Finds

Five Years After Leaving Rikers, Lloyd Haynes Is Still Fighting City Jails for Answers

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