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When Prison Nurses Must Choose Between Loyalty to Abusive Guards and Devotion to Patients

May 1, 2025, 6:01 a.m.May 1, 2025, 3:05 p.m.

In dozens of cases, medical personnel in New York prisons were accused of covering up beatings — some under pressure — and rarely faced punishment.

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Prisons

Hidden from Cameras, New York State Prison Infirmaries Became ‘Torture Chambers’

April 30, 2025, 6:01 a.m.May 1, 2025, 2:33 p.m.

After guards beat Robert Brooks to death in December, The Marshall Project found dozens more allegations of abuse in medical rooms.

Trump istration

More Than 5,000 People Are on a NY State Police Gang Database That’s Talking to ICE

April 24, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 24, 2025, 8:03 a.m.

The database, in operation for 20 years, isn't audited, has attracted little attention and uses speculative criteria such as clothing and tattoos to designate people as of criminal gangs.

Marijuana

Cannabis Store Operators Call for Loan Forgiveness

Jan. 9, 2025, 8:13 p.m.Jan. 9, 2025, 8:13 p.m.

Faced with high-cost loans, social equity borrowers say a New York State program designed to help them threatens to sink their businesses instead.

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Criminal Justice

Doctors Sanctioned for Glaring Medical Mistakes Find a Place to Practice in NY State Prisons

Dec. 23, 2024, 5:01 a.m.Dec. 23, 2024, 9:39 a.m.

They’ve been judged guilty of medical misconduct, negligence, incompetence and even felonies. An investigation by THE CITY reveals that 10 such doctors found work treating incarcerated patients.

Climate Change

How New York City Is Getting Screwed Out of $4.2 Billion in State Green Bonds

Sept. 3, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Sept. 17, 2024, 4:30 p.m.

Voters in New York City were the biggest backers of the Environmental Bond Act, but funding formulas have steered nearly every dollar upstate, with the city getting just 2% so far.

A tenement building sat near the Ditmas Boulevard station in Astoria.

Rent

Landlords Tens of Thousands More Rent-Regulated Apartments Under Threat of Fines

Aug. 16, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 19, 2024, 4:25 p.m.

A new state law, ed after THE CITY exposed units inexplicably missing in property owner reports, has spurred a surge in compliance in the face of costly penalties.

Yi Andy Chen campaigns for Assembly in Queens.

Elections

State Campaigns Are About to Rake in $100 Million of Public Funding — While Also Spending All The Private Money They Want

May 1, 2024, 6:00 a.m.April 30, 2024, 7:43 p.m.

And while NYC’s public campaign finance system endures scandals, the state won’t audit the majority of campaigns.

Two people walk together down a residential block in Jamaica.

Housing

Neighborhoods That Most Need Basement Apartment Legalization Left Out of State Pilot

April 29, 2024, 5:00 a.m.April 28, 2024, 11:46 a.m.

Six of 15 districts in the program to allow subterranean apartment conversions are in Manhattan, a borough with only 1% of the city’s basement and cellars in smaller homes.

Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks about cracking down on unlicensed cannabis shops.

Marijuana

How Private Equity Trumped Social Equity in State Cannabis Deal

April 24, 2024, 5:01 a.m.Oct. 22, 2024, 10:40 a.m.

Confidential documents obtained by THE CITY reveal how Chicago Atlantic Group became one of the biggest beneficiaries of the state’s legalization program.

State Government

When Prison Nurses Must Choose Between Loyalty to Abusive Guards and Devotion to Patients

Hidden from Cameras, New York State Prison Infirmaries Became ‘Torture Chambers’

More Than 5,000 People Are on a NY State Police Gang Database That’s Talking to ICE

Cannabis Store Operators Call for Loan Forgiveness

Doctors Sanctioned for Glaring Medical Mistakes Find a Place to Practice in NY State Prisons

How New York City Is Getting Screwed Out of $4.2 Billion in State Green Bonds

Landlords Tens of Thousands More Rent-Regulated Apartments Under Threat of Fines

State Campaigns Are About to Rake in $100 Million of Public Funding — While Also Spending All The Private Money They Want

Neighborhoods That Most Need Basement Apartment Legalization Left Out of State Pilot

How Private Equity Trumped Social Equity in State Cannabis Deal

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