Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing legislative leaders to adopt changes to the state’s bail laws as part of the state budget, due April 1. Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed allowing judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness to the community in deciding whether to set...
By Jaeah Lee Ms. Lee is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a 2021-22 Knight-Wallace reporting fellow. March 30, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Tommy Munsdwell Canady was in middle school when he wrote his first rap lyrics. He started out freestyling for...
Ms. Hochul wants to expand the list of crimes eligible for bail in New York, and give judges the power to consider the danger a defendant poses in setting bail for certain crimes. Gov. Kathy Hochul intends to include potential changes to the state’s bail law in the...
One man was paralyzed from the neck down. Another landed in a coma. Neither injury was documented properly in the New York City jail system awash in disorder. Rates of violence rose sharply in the Rikers Island jail complex last year as thousands of correction...
Prisoners were subjected to solitary confinement and denied family visits because of improperly administered tests, the state inspector general found. Because of faulty results in drug testing at state prisons, including Attica, prisoners were placed in solitary...
